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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : MariaDB vulnerabilities (USN-4195-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 131182

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Synopsis

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

Description

USN-4195-1 fixed multiple vulnerabilities in MySQL. This update provides the corresponding fixes for CVE-2019-2974 in MariaDB 10.1 and CVE-2019-2938, CVE-2019-2974 for MariaDB 10.3.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS has been updated to MariaDB 10.1.43. Ubuntu 19.04 and 19.10 has been updated to MariaDB 10.3.20.

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-10143-changelog/ https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/mariadb-10143-release-notes/ https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/mariadb-10320-changelog/ https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/mariadb-10320-release-notes/

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues.

MySQL has been updated to 8.0.18 in Ubuntu 19.10. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 19.04 have been updated to MySQL 5.7.28.

In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes.

Please see the following for more information:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-28.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/8.0/en/news-8-0-18.html https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2019.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.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4195-2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 131182

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4195-2.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/21/2019

Updated: 10/20/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless 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:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-2974

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmariadbclient-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmariadbclient-dev-compat, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmariadbclient18, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmariadbd-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmariadbd18, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-client-10.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-client-core-10.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-connect, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-gssapi-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-gssapi-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-mroonga, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-oqgraph, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-spider, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-tokudb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-server-10.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-server-core-10.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-test, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-test-data, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/20/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-2938, CVE-2019-2974

USN: 4195-2