SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : mariadb (SUSE-SU-2017:2035-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 102192
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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 :

 - switch from 'Restart=on-failure' to 'Restart=on-abort' in mysql.service in order to follow the upstream. It also fixes hanging mysql-systemd-helper when mariadb fails (e.g. because of the misconfiguration) (bsc#963041)

 - 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 OpenStack Cloud 6:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-6-2017-1247=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP3-2017-1247=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP2-2017-1247=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2017-1247=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2017-1247=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2017-1247=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2017-1247=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2017-1247=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-1247=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2017-1247=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2017-1247=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2017-1247=1

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

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963041

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?1fd651be

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 102192

File Name: suse_SU-2017-2035-1.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/4/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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