RHSA-2020:4026 - Security Advisory

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 (5.5.68). (BZ#1769276)

Security Fix(es):

• mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability (CPU Oct 2019) (CVE-2019-2974)
• mysql: C API unspecified vulnerability (CPU Apr 2020) (CVE-2020-2752)
• mysql: Server: DML unspecified vulnerability (CPU Apr 2020) (CVE-2020-2780)
• mysql: Server: Stored Procedure unspecified vulnerability (CPU Apr 2020) (CVE-2020-2812)
• mysql: C API: unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2020) (CVE-2020-2574)

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 7.9 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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 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
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1465481 - Test case failure: /CoreOS/mariadb55/testsuite - perfschema.func_file_io / aarch64
• BZ - 1592735 - testsuite failure during rebuild - parts.partition_alter1_2_innodb 'innodb_plugin'
• BZ - 1689827 - [MariaDB Client] Memory leak of around 2 kb for every MySQL connect()
• BZ - 1704296 - Test case failure: /CoreOS/mariadb55/testsuite - main.mysqldump
• BZ - 1713365 - mysqldump unit test fail
• BZ - 1718877 - main.innodb_mrr_cpk unit test fails
• BZ - 1764691 - CVE-2019-2974 mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability (CPU Oct 2019)
• BZ - 1798587 - CVE-2020-2574 mysql: C API unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2020)
• BZ - 1820269 - [FTBFS] mariadb main.events_bugs fails due to 2020-01-01 date
• BZ - 1830056 - CVE-2020-2780 mysql: Server: DML unspecified vulnerability (CPU Apr 2020)
• BZ - 1830059 - CVE-2020-2812 mysql: Server: Stored Procedure unspecified vulnerability (CPU Apr 2020)
• BZ - 1834835 - Tracker: MariaDB rebase to the latest version (5.5.68)
• BZ - 1835849 - CVE-2020-2752 mysql: C API unspecified vulnerability (CPU Apr 2020)

CVEs

• CVE-2019-2974
• CVE-2020-2574
• CVE-2020-2752
• CVE-2020-2780
• CVE-2020-2812
• CVE-2021-2144

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.9_release_notes/index