SUSE SLES11 Security Update : mysql (SUSE-SU-2017:0408-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 97046

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This mysql version update to 5.5.54 fixes the following issues :

- CVE-2017-3318: Unspecified vulnerability affecting Error Handling (bsc#1020896)

- CVE-2017-3317: Unspecified vulnerability affecting Logging (bsc#1020894)

- CVE-2017-3313: Unspecified vulnerability affecting the MyISAM component (bsc#1020890)

- CVE-2017-3312: Insecure error log file handling in mysqld_safe, incomplete CVE-2016-6664 (bsc#1020873)

- CVE-2017-3291: Unrestricted mysqld_safe's ledir (bsc#1020884)

- CVE-2017-3265: Unsafe chmod/chown use in init script (bsc#1020885)

- CVE-2017-3258: Unspecified vulnerability in the DDL component (bsc#1020875)

- CVE-2017-3244: Unspecified vulnerability affecing the DML component (bsc#1020877)

- CVE-2017-3243: Unspecified vulnerability affecting the Charsets component (bsc#1020891)

- CVE-2017-3238: Unspecified vulnerability affecting the Optimizer component (bsc#1020882)

- Applications using the client library for MySQL (libmysqlclient.so) had a use-after-free issue that could cause the applications to crash (bsc#1022428) Release Notes:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5- 54.html

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 5:zypper in -t patch sleclo50sp3-mysql-12971=1

SUSE Manager Proxy 2.1:zypper in -t patch slemap21-mysql-12971=1

SUSE Manager 2.1:zypper in -t patch sleman21-mysql-12971=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch sdksp4-mysql-12971=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-mysql-12971=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS:zypper in -t patch slessp3-mysql-12971=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3:zypper in -t patch sleposp3-mysql-12971=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-mysql-12971=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3:zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-mysql-12971=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 97046

File Name: suse_SU-2017-0408-1.nasl

Version: 3.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/7/2017

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

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 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:novell:suse_linux:libmysql55client_r18, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mysql-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mysql-tools, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmysql55client18, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mysql

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/6/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/13/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6664, CVE-2017-3238, CVE-2017-3243, CVE-2017-3244, CVE-2017-3258, CVE-2017-3265, CVE-2017-3291, CVE-2017-3312, CVE-2017-3313, CVE-2017-3317, CVE-2017-3318

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