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openSUSE Security Update : mariadb (openSUSE-2017-902)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 102338

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

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

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP1:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected mariadb packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1048715

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=963041

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

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 102338

File Name: openSUSE-2017-902.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/10/2017

Updated: 12/2/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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:opensuse:mariadb-test-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mariadb-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mariadb-test, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mariadb-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mariadb-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmysqlclient_r18-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mariadb-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmysqlclient-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmysqld18, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mariadb-bench-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmysqlclient18-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mariadb-bench, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmysqlclient18-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mariadb-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mariadb, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmysqld-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmysqlclient18-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mariadb-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmysqlclient_r18, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmysqld18-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmysqlclient18, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mariadb-errormessages

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/9/2017

Reference Information

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