Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : MariaDB vulnerabilities (USN-4070-2)
Medium Nessus Plugin ID 127886
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
Description
USN-4070-1 fixed multiple vulnerabilities in MySQL. This update provides the corresponding fixes for CVE-2019-2737, CVE-2019-2739, CVE-2019-2740, CVE-2019-2805 in MariaDB 10.1.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS has been updated to MariaDB 10.1.41.
In addition to security fixes, the updated package contain bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes.
Please see the following for more information:
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/mariadb-10141-changelog/ https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/mariadb-10141-release-notes/
Original advisory details :
Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes a new upstream MySQL version to fix these issues. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 19.04 have been updated to MySQL 5.7.27. In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes.
Please see the following for more information:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-27.html https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-507283 5.html.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected packages.