RHSA-2016:1637 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for rh-mariadb101-mariadb is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

MariaDB is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. For all practical purposes, MariaDB is binary-compatible with MySQL.

The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: rh-mariadb101-mariadb (10.1.16).

Security Fix(es):

• This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the MariaDB database server. Information about these flaws can be found on the Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory page, listed in the References section. (CVE-2016-3477, CVE-2016-3521, CVE-2016-3615, CVE-2016-5440)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing this update, the MariaDB server daemon (mysqld) will be restarted automatically.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1358205 - CVE-2016-3477 mysql: unspecified vulnerability in subcomponent: Server: Parser (CPU July 2016)
• BZ - 1358209 - CVE-2016-3521 mysql: unspecified vulnerability in subcomponent: Server: Types (CPU July 2016)
• BZ - 1358212 - CVE-2016-3615 mysql: unspecified vulnerability in subcomponent: Server: DML (CPU July 2016)
• BZ - 1358218 - CVE-2016-5440 mysql: unspecified vulnerability in subcomponent: Server: RBR (CPU July 2016)

CVEs

• CVE-2016-3477
• CVE-2016-3521
• CVE-2016-3615
• CVE-2016-5440

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal