RHEL 8 : mariadb:10.5 (RHSA-2023:6821)

high Nessus Plugin ID 185379

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for mariadb:10.5.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6821 advisory.

MariaDB is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server that is binary compatible with MySQL.

Security Fix(es):

* mariadb: node crashes with Transport endpoint is not connected mysqld got signal 6 (CVE-2023-5157)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL mariadb:10.5 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:6821.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?963cbb62

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240246

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6821

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 185379

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-6821.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/8/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

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: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5157

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-backup, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-embedded, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-server-galera, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-oqgraph-engine, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-server-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-errmsg, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-pam, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-gssapi-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-test, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.4, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:judy, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:galera, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mariadb-embedded-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/8/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/27/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5157

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2023:6821