Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : MariaDB vulnerabilities (USN-5305-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 158456

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5305-1 advisory.

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

MariaDB has been updated to 10.3.34 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and to 10.5.15 in 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 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-5305-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 158456

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5305-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/28/2022

Updated: 8/29/2024

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: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24052

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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: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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/28/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/29/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-46659, CVE-2021-46661, CVE-2021-46663, CVE-2021-46664, CVE-2021-46665, CVE-2021-46668, CVE-2022-24048, CVE-2022-24050, CVE-2022-24051, CVE-2022-24052

USN: 5305-1