RHEL 6 / 7 : rh-mariadb100-mariadb (RHSA-2018:0279)

high Nessus Plugin ID 210322

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for rh-mariadb100-mariadb.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0279 advisory.

MariaDB is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. For all practical purposes, MariaDB is binary-compatible with MySQL.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-mariadb100-mariadb (10.0.33).

Security Fix(es):

* A flaw was found in the way the mysqld_safe script handled creation of error log file. The mysql operating system user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root. (CVE-2016-5617, CVE-2016-6664)

* Multiple flaws were found in the way the MySQL init script handled initialization of the database data directory and permission setting on the error log file. The mysql operating system user could use these flaws to escalate their privileges to root. (CVE-2017-3265)

* It was discovered that the mysqld_safe script honored the ledir option value set in a MySQL configuration file. A user able to modify one of the MySQL configuration files could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root. (CVE-2017-3291)

* Multiple flaws were found in the way the mysqld_safe script handled creation of error log file. The mysql operating system user could use these flaws to escalate their privileges to root. (CVE-2017-3312)

* A flaw was found in the way MySQL client library (libmysqlclient) handled prepared statements when server connection was lost. A malicious server or a man-in-the-middle attacker could possibly use this flaw to crash an application using libmysqlclient. (CVE-2017-3302)

* This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the MariaDB database server. Information about these flaws can be found on the Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory pages listed in the References section.
(CVE-2017-3238, CVE-2017-3243, CVE-2017-3244, CVE-2017-3257, CVE-2017-3258, CVE-2017-3308, CVE-2017-3309, CVE-2017-3313, CVE-2017-3317, CVE-2017-3318, CVE-2017-3453, CVE-2017-3456, CVE-2017-3464, CVE-2017-3636, CVE-2017-3641, CVE-2017-3653, CVE-2017-10268, CVE-2017-10286, CVE-2017-10378, CVE-2017-10379, CVE-2017-10384)

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-mariadb100-mariadb package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:0279.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 210322

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0279.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/5/2024

Updated: 11/6/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-6664

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-mariadb100-mariadb-config, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-mariadb100-mariadb-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-mariadb100-mariadb-bench, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-mariadb100-mariadb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-mariadb100-mariadb-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-mariadb100-mariadb-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-mariadb100-mariadb-oqgraph-engine, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-mariadb100-mariadb-errmsg, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-mariadb100-mariadb-test

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/6/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/18/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5617, CVE-2016-6664, CVE-2017-10268, CVE-2017-10286, CVE-2017-10378, CVE-2017-10379, CVE-2017-10384, CVE-2017-3238, CVE-2017-3243, CVE-2017-3244, CVE-2017-3257, CVE-2017-3258, CVE-2017-3265, CVE-2017-3291, CVE-2017-3302, CVE-2017-3308, CVE-2017-3309, CVE-2017-3312, CVE-2017-3313, CVE-2017-3317, CVE-2017-3318, CVE-2017-3453, CVE-2017-3456, CVE-2017-3464, CVE-2017-3636, CVE-2017-3641, CVE-2017-3653

CWE: 416, 426, 59

RHSA: 2018:0279

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