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AlmaLinux 8 : mariadb:10.3 and mariadb-devel:10.3 (ALSA-2021:1242)

high Nessus Plugin ID 157723

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2021:1242 advisory.

 - A remote code execution issue was discovered in MariaDB 10.2 before 10.2.37, 10.3 before 10.3.28, 10.4 before 10.4.18, and 10.5 before 10.5.9; Percona Server through 2021-03-03; and the wsrep patch through 2021-03-03 for MySQL. An untrusted search path leads to eval injection, in which a database SUPER user can execute OS commands after modifying wsrep_provider and wsrep_notify_cmd. NOTE: this does not affect an Oracle product. (CVE-2021-27928)

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://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2021-1242.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 157723

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2021-1242.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 2/9/2022

Updated: 2/14/2022

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-27928

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:mariadb-backup, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:mariadb-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:judy-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:mariadb-errmsg, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:mariadb-gssapi-server, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:mariadb-server, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:mariadb-common, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:mariadb-test, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:mariadb-embedded-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:mariadb-server-galera, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:mariadb-oqgraph-engine, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:judy, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:mariadb-server-utils, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:mariadb, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:galera, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:mariadb-embedded

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/19/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/19/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-27928