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openSUSE Security Update : mysql-community-server (openSUSE-2017-555) (Riddle)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 100039

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for mysql-community-server to version 5.6.36 fixes the following issues :

These security issues were fixed :

 - CVE-2016-5483: Mysqldump failed to properly quote certain identifiers in SQL statements written to the dump output, allowing for execution of arbitrary commands (bsc#1029014)

 - CVE-2017-3305: MySQL client sent authentication request unencrypted even if SSL was required (aka Ridddle) (bsc#1029396).

 - CVE-2017-3308: Unspecified vulnerability in Server: DML (boo#1034850)

 - CVE-2017-3309: Unspecified vulnerability in Server:
 Optimizer (boo#1034850)

 - CVE-2017-3329: Unspecified vulnerability in Server:
 Thread (boo#1034850)

 - CVE-2017-3453: Unspecified vulnerability in Server:
 Optimizer (boo#1034850)

 - CVE-2017-3456: Unspecified vulnerability in Server: DML (boo#1034850)

 - CVE-2017-3461: Unspecified vulnerability in Server:
 Security (boo#1034850)

 - CVE-2017-3462: Unspecified vulnerability in Server:
 Security (boo#1034850)

 - CVE-2017-3463: Unspecified vulnerability in Server:
 Security (boo#1034850)

 - CVE-2017-3464: Unspecified vulnerability in Server: DDL (boo#1034850)

 - CVE-2017-3302: Crash in libmysqlclient.so (bsc#1022428).

 - CVE-2017-3450: Unspecified vulnerability Server:
 Memcached

 - CVE-2017-3452: Unspecified vulnerability Server:
 Optimizer

 - CVE-2017-3599: Unspecified vulnerability Server:
 Pluggable Auth

 - CVE-2017-3600: Unspecified vulnerability in Client:
 mysqldump (boo#1034850)

 - '--ssl-mode=REQUIRED' can be specified to require a secure connection (it fails if a secure connection cannot be obtained)

These non-security issues were fixed :

 - Set the default umask to 077 in mysql-systemd-helper (boo#1020976)

 - Change permissions of the configuration dir/files to 755/644. Please note that storing the password in the /etc/my.cnf file is not safe. Use for example an option file that is accessible only by yourself (boo#889126)

For more information please see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-36.html

Solution

Update the affected mysql-community-server packages.

See Also

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-36.html

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1020976

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1022428

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1029014

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1029396

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034850

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=889126

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 100039

File Name: openSUSE-2017-555.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/9/2017

Updated: 12/19/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-3305

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-3600

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mysql-community-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mysql-community-server-bench, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mysql-community-server-bench-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mysql-community-server-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mysql-community-server-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mysql-community-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mysql-community-server-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mysql-community-server-test, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mysql-community-server-test-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mysql-community-server-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mysql-community-server-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmysql56client18, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmysql56client18-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmysql56client18-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmysql56client18-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmysql56client_r18, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmysql56client_r18-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mysql-community-server-errormessages

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: 5/8/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5483, CVE-2017-3302, CVE-2017-3305, CVE-2017-3308, CVE-2017-3309, CVE-2017-3329, CVE-2017-3450, CVE-2017-3452, CVE-2017-3453, CVE-2017-3456, CVE-2017-3461, CVE-2017-3462, CVE-2017-3463, CVE-2017-3464, CVE-2017-3599, CVE-2017-3600