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openSUSE Security Update : xtrabackup (openSUSE-2017-132)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 96713

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for xtrabackup fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2016-6225: xbcrypt encryption IV not being set properly (boo#1019858)

In addition, XtraBackup was updated to 2.3.6 to include the following improvements :

 - now supports SHA256 passwords

 - new supports command options for secure connections

The following bugs were fixed :

 - intermittent assertion failures when not correctly identifying server version

 - Safe slave backup algorithm performed too short delays between retries which could cause backups to fail on a busy servers

 - fix compilation warnings with gcc6

 - Backup would still succeed even if xtrabackup would fail to write the metadata

 - xbcloud now supports EMC ECS Swift API Authorization requests

 - backup failed with MariaDB 10.2 with the unsupported server version error message

Solution

Update the affected xtrabackup packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1019858

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 96713

File Name: openSUSE-2017-132.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2017

Updated: 1/5/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-6225

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xtrabackup, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xtrabackup-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xtrabackup-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xtrabackup-test

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: 1/23/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6225