SUSE SLES12 Security Update : mariadb (SUSE-SU-2020:0505-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 134158

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for mariadb fixes the following issues :

MariaDB was updated to version 10.2.31 GA (bsc#1162388).

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2020-2574: Fixed a difficult to exploit vulnerability that allowed an attacker to crash the client (bsc#1162388).

CVE-2019-18901: Fixed an unsafe path handling behavior in mysql-systemd-helper (bsc#1160895).

Enabled security hardenings in MariaDB's systemd service, namely ProtectSystem, ProtectHome and UMask (bsc#1160878).

Fixed a permissions issue in /var/lib/mysql (bsc#1077717).

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 the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Crowbar-9-2020-505=1

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-9-2020-505=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2020-505=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2020-505=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 134158

File Name: suse_SU-2020-0505-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/28/2020

Updated: 3/6/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-18901

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: 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-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: 2/27/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/15/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-18901, CVE-2020-2574

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