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Amazon Linux 2 : mariadb (ALASMARIADB10.5-2024-006)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 202979

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of mariadb installed on the remote host is prior to 10.5.25-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2MARIADB10.5-2024-006 advisory.

 MariaDB Server 10.4 before 10.4.33, 10.5 before 10.5.24, 10.6 before 10.6.17, 10.7 through 10.11 before 10.11.7, 11.0 before 11.0.5, and 11.1 before 11.1.4 calls fix_fields_if_needed under mysql_derived_prepare when derived is not yet prepared, leading to a find_field_in_table crash. (CVE-2023-52968)

 Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Client: mysqldump). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.36 and prior and 8.3.0 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where MySQL Server executes to compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of MySQL Server accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of MySQL Server accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of MySQL Server. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 4.9 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L). (CVE-2024-21096)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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

Run 'yum update mariadb' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALASMARIADB10.5-2024-006.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-52968.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-21096.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 202979

File Name: al2_ALASMARIADB10_5-2024-006.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/23/2024

Updated: 3/27/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-21096

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-backup, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-cracklib-password-check, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-sphinx-engine, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-config, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-s3-engine, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-pam, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-embedded-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-gssapi-server, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-server, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-embedded, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-rocksdb-engine, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-oqgraph-engine, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-common, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-server-galera, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-server-utils, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-errmsg, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-test, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-connect-engine

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/18/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/16/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52968, CVE-2024-21096