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Amazon Linux 2 : mariadb (ALASMARIADB10.5-2025-007)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 237514

Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of mariadb installed on the remote host is prior to 10.5.29-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2MARIADB10.5-2025-007 advisory.

 MariaDB Server 10.4 through 10.5.*, 10.6 through 10.6.*, 10.7 through 10.11.*, and 11.0 through 11.0.* can sometimes crash with an empty backtrace log. This may be related to make_aggr_tables_info and optimize_stage2. (CVE-2023-52969)

 MariaDB Server 10.4 through 10.5.*, 10.6 through 10.6.*, 10.7 through 10.11.*, 11.0 through 11.0.*, and 11.1 through 11.4.* crashes in Item_direct_view_ref::derived_field_transformer_for_where. (CVE-2023-52970)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'yum update mariadb' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-52969.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-52970.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALASMARIADB10.5-2025-007.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 237514

File Name: al2_ALASMARIADB10_5-2025-007.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/29/2025

Updated: 5/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-52970

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-embedded, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-embedded-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-server, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-test, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-backup, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-common, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-config, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-connect-engine, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-cracklib-password-check, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-errmsg, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-gssapi-server, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-oqgraph-engine, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-pam, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-rocksdb-engine, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-s3-engine, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-server-galera, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-server-utils, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mariadb-sphinx-engine

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/29/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/8/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52969, CVE-2023-52970