Issued:
2014-05-20
Updated:
2014-05-20

RHSA-2014:0522 - Moderate: mariadb55-mariadb security update

Synopsis

Moderate: mariadb55-mariadb security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Updated mariadb55-mariadb packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Software Collections 1.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

MariaDB is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server that is binary compatible with MySQL.

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-2014-2436, CVE-2014-2440, CVE-2014-0384, CVE-2014-2419, CVE-2014-2430, CVE-2014-2431, CVE-2014-2432, CVE-2014-2438)

These updated packages upgrade MariaDB to version 5.5.37. Refer to the MariaDB Release Notes listed in the References section for a complete list of changes.

All MariaDB users should upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues. After installing this update, the MariaDB server daemon (mysqld) will be restarted automatically.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation)1x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server)1x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server)1x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server)1x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server)1x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server)1x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server)1x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) from RHUI1x86_64

Updated Packages

  • mariadb55-mariadb-devel-5.5.37-1.3.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • mariadb55-mariadb-libs-5.5.37-1.3.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • mariadb55-mariadb-5.5.37-1.3.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • mariadb55-mariadb-test-5.5.37-1.3.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • mariadb55-mariadb-bench-5.5.37-1.3.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • mariadb55-mariadb-5.5.37-1.3.el6.src.rpm
  • mariadb55-mariadb-server-5.5.37-1.3.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • mariadb55-mariadb-debuginfo-5.5.37-1.3.el6.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information