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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : MySQL vulnerabilities (USN-4952-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 149446

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4952-1 advisory.

 Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues.

 MySQL has been updated to 8.0.25 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.10, and Ubuntu 21.04. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS has been updated to MySQL 5.7.34.

 In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes.

 Please see the following for more information:

 https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-34.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/8.0/en/news-8-0-24.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/8.0/en/news-8-0-25.html https://www.oracle.com/security- alerts/cpuapr2021.html

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4952-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 149446

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4952-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/13/2021

Updated: 8/27/2024

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: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-2304

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-2307

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmysqlclient20, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-client-8.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-client-core-8.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-testsuite-8.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-server-5.7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-server-core-8.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-client-5.7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-client-core-5.7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-testsuite-5.7, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-server-core-5.7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-testsuite, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmysqlclient21, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-router, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmysqld-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmysqlclient-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-server-8.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-source-8.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-source-5.7

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/12/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/20/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-2146, CVE-2021-2154, CVE-2021-2162, CVE-2021-2164, CVE-2021-2166, CVE-2021-2169, CVE-2021-2170, CVE-2021-2171, CVE-2021-2172, CVE-2021-2179, CVE-2021-2180, CVE-2021-2193, CVE-2021-2194, CVE-2021-2196, CVE-2021-2201, CVE-2021-2203, CVE-2021-2208, CVE-2021-2212, CVE-2021-2215, CVE-2021-2217, CVE-2021-2226, CVE-2021-2230, CVE-2021-2232, CVE-2021-2278, CVE-2021-2293, CVE-2021-2298, CVE-2021-2299, CVE-2021-2300, CVE-2021-2301, CVE-2021-2304, CVE-2021-2305, CVE-2021-2307, CVE-2021-2308

USN: 4952-1