Synopsis

Moderate: mariadb security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for mariadb is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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 that is binary compatible with MySQL.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: mariadb (5.5.65). (BZ#1741357)

Security Fix(es):

• mysql: Server: Pluggable Auth unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jul 2019) (CVE-2019-2737)
• mysql: Server: Security: Privileges unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jul 2019) (CVE-2019-2739)
• mysql: Server: XML unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jul 2019) (CVE-2019-2740)
• mysql: Server: Parser unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jul 2019) (CVE-2019-2805)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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 Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1731997 - CVE-2019-2737 mysql: Server: Pluggable Auth unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jul 2019)
• BZ - 1731999 - CVE-2019-2739 mysql: Server: Security: Privileges unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jul 2019)
• BZ - 1732000 - CVE-2019-2740 mysql: Server: XML unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jul 2019)
• BZ - 1732025 - CVE-2019-2805 mysql: Server: Parser unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jul 2019)

CVEs

• CVE-2019-2737
• CVE-2019-2739
• CVE-2019-2740
• CVE-2019-2805
• CVE-2020-2922
• CVE-2021-2007

References