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openSUSE Security Update : xtrabackup (openSUSE-2017-132)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 96713
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Synopsis
The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.Description
This update for xtrabackup fixes the following issues :- CVE-2016-6225: xbcrypt encryption IV not being set properly (boo#1019858)
In addition, XtraBackup was updated to 2.3.6 to include the following improvements :
- now supports SHA256 passwords
- new supports command options for secure connections
The following bugs were fixed :
- intermittent assertion failures when not correctly identifying server version
- Safe slave backup algorithm performed too short delays between retries which could cause backups to fail on a busy servers
- fix compilation warnings with gcc6
- Backup would still succeed even if xtrabackup would fail to write the metadata
- xbcloud now supports EMC ECS Swift API Authorization requests
- backup failed with MariaDB 10.2 with the unsupported server version error message
Solution
Update the affected xtrabackup packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 96713
File Name: openSUSE-2017-132.nasl
Version: 3.5
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 1/24/2017
Updated: 1/19/2021
Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.9
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xtrabackup, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xtrabackup-test, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xtrabackup-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xtrabackup-debugsource
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Patch Publication Date: 1/23/2017
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2016-6225