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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : MariaDB vulnerability (USN-5170-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 155908

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5170-1 advisory.

 A security issue was discovered in MariaDB and this update includes new upstream MariaDB versions to fix the issue.

 MariaDB has been updated to 10.3.32 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and to 10.5.13 in Ubuntu 21.04 and Ubuntu 21.10.

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

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-5170-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 155908

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5170-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/7/2021

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-2021-35604

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmariadbd-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-client-10.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmariadb-dev-compat, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmariadb3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-backup, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-connect, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-tokudb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-mroonga, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-test-data, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-gssapi-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-server-core-10.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmariadb-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-server-10.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmariadbd19, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmariadbclient-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-spider, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-client-core-10.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-gssapi-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-test, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-rocksdb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-oqgraph

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/6/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/19/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-35604

IAVA: 2021-A-0487-S

USN: 5170-1