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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : mariadb-connector-c (SUSE-SU-2020:1431-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 137545

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for mariadb-connector-c fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

CVE-2020-13249: Fixed an improper validation of OK packets received from clients (bsc#1171550).

Non-security issues fixed :

Update to release 3.1.8 (bsc#1171550)

 - CONC-304: Rename the static library to libmariadb.a and other libmariadb files in a consistent manner

 - CONC-441: Default user name for C/C is wrong if login user is different from effective user

 - CONC-449: Check $MARIADB_HOME/my.cnf in addition to $MYSQL_HOME/my.cnf

 - CONC-457: mysql_list_processes crashes in unpack_fields

 - CONC-458: mysql_get_timeout_value crashes when used improper

 - CONC-464: Fix static build for auth_gssapi_client plugin

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2020-1431=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2020-1431=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1171550

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-13249/

http://www.nessus.org/u?dba4bbbd

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 137545

File Name: suse_SU-2020-1431-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/17/2020

Updated: 3/6/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-13249

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmariadb_plugins, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmariadb3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmariadb3, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmariadb_plugins-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mariadb-connector-c-debugsource

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/26/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/20/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-13249