RHEL 6 / 7 : rh-mysql56-mysql (RHSA-2018:0587)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194061

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for rh-mysql56-mysql.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0587 advisory.

MySQL is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. It consists of the MySQL server daemon, mysqld, and many client programs.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-mysql56-mysql (5.6.39).
(BZ#1533831)

Security Fix(es):

* mysql: sha256_password authentication DoS via long password (CVE-2018-2696)

* mysql: Server : Partition unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2562)

* mysql: Server: GIS unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2573)

* mysql: Stored Procedure unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2583)

* mysql: Server: Performance Schema unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2590)

* mysql: Server : Partition unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2591)

* mysql: InnoDB unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2612)

* mysql: Server: DDL unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2622)

* mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2640)

* mysql: Server: Performance Schema unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2645)

* mysql: Server: Replication unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2647)

* mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2665)

* mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2668)

* mysql: sha256_password authentication DoS via hash with large rounds value (CVE-2018-2703)

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

The CVE-2018-2696 and CVE-2018-2703 issues were discovered by Red Hat Product Security.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL rh-mysql56-mysql package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:0587.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194061

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0587.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/27/2024

Updated: 11/5/2024

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: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-2647

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-2562

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-mysql56-mysql-errmsg, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-mysql56-mysql-test, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-mysql56-mysql-bench, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-mysql56-mysql-config, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-mysql56-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-mysql56-mysql-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-mysql56-mysql-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-mysql56-mysql-server

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: 3/26/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-2562, CVE-2018-2573, CVE-2018-2583, CVE-2018-2590, CVE-2018-2591, CVE-2018-2612, CVE-2018-2622, CVE-2018-2640, CVE-2018-2645, CVE-2018-2647, CVE-2018-2665, CVE-2018-2668, CVE-2018-2696, CVE-2018-2703

CWE: 770

RHSA: 2018:0587

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