SUSE SLES12 Security Update : mariadb (SUSE-SU-2017:0411-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 97063

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Synopsis

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

Description

This mariadb version update to 10.0.29 fixes the following issues :

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

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

- CVE-2017-3312: 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-2017-3257: unspecified vulnerability affecting InnoDB (bsc#1020878)

- 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)

- CVE-2016-6664: Root Privilege Escalation (bsc#1008253)

- Applications using the client library for MySQL (libmysqlclient.so) had a use-after-free issue that could cause the applications to crash (bsc#1022428)

- notable changes :

- XtraDB updated to 5.6.34-79.1

- TokuDB updated to 5.6.34-79.1

- Innodb updated to 5.6.35

- Performance Schema updated to 5.6.35 Release notes and changelog :

- https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-10029-release-notes

- https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-10029-changelog

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 Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-2017-205=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2017-205=1

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 97063

File Name: suse_SU-2017-0411-1.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/8/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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:mariadb-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mariadb-errormessages, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmysqlclient18, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mariadb-tools, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mariadb-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmysqlclient18-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmysqld-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmysqld18, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mariadb-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmysqlclient_r18, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmysqlclient-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmysqld18-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mariadb-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mariadb-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mariadb

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: 2/7/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/13/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6664, CVE-2017-3238, CVE-2017-3243, CVE-2017-3244, CVE-2017-3257, CVE-2017-3258, CVE-2017-3265, CVE-2017-3291, CVE-2017-3312, CVE-2017-3317, CVE-2017-3318

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