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

high 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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 100039

File Name: openSUSE-2017-555.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/9/2017

Updated: 1/19/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Temporal Vector: E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: 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, 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-errormessages, 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, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2

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

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