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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : mariadb (SUSE-SU-2017:2034-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 102191

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Synopsis

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

Description

This MariaDB update to version 10.0.31 GA fixes the following issues:
Security issues fixed :

 - CVE-2017-3308: Subcomponent: Server: DML: Easily 'exploitable' vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MariaDB Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS). (bsc#1048715)

 - CVE-2017-3309: Subcomponent: Server: Optimizer: Easily 'exploitable' vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MariaDB Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS). (bsc#1048715)

 - CVE-2017-3453: Subcomponent: Server: Optimizer: Easily 'exploitable' vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MariaDB Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS). (bsc#1048715)

 - CVE-2017-3456: Subcomponent: Server: DML: Easily 'exploitable' vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MariaDB Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS). (bsc#1048715)

 - CVE-2017-3464: Subcomponent: Server: DDL: Easily 'exploitable' vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MariaDB Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS). (bsc#1048715) Bug fixes :

 - XtraDB updated to 5.6.36-82.0

 - TokuDB updated to 5.6.36-82.0

 - Innodb updated to 5.6.36

 - Performance Schema updated to 5.6.36 Release notes and changelog :

- https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-10031-release-notes

- https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-10031-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-12-2017-1244=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2017-1244=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1048715

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/mariadb-10031-changelog/

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/mariadb-10031-release-notes/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3308/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3309/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3453/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3456/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3464/

http://www.nessus.org/u?ef620f42

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 102191

File Name: suse_SU-2017-2034-1.nasl

Version: 3.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/4/2017

Updated: 12/4/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-3464

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/3/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-3308, CVE-2017-3309, CVE-2017-3453, CVE-2017-3456, CVE-2017-3464