Issued:
2016-10-13
Updated:
2016-10-13

RHSA-2016:2062 - Important: mariadb-galera security update

Synopsis

Important: mariadb-galera security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for mariadb-galera is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka).

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 that is binary compatible with MySQL. Galera is a synchronous multi-master cluster for MariaDB.

Security Fix(es):

  • A permissions flaw was discovered in the MySQL logging functionality, which allowed writing to MySQL configuration files. An administrative database user, or a database user with FILE privileges, could possibly exploit this flaw to run arbitrary commands with root privileges on the system running the database server. (CVE-2016-6662)

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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat OpenStack9x86_64

Updated Packages

  • mariadb-galera-5.5.42-5.el7ost.src.rpm
  • mariadb-galera-common-5.5.42-5.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
  • mariadb-galera-debuginfo-5.5.42-5.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
  • mariadb-galera-server-5.5.42-5.el7ost.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information