Issued:

2020-12-15

Updated:

2020-12-15

RHSA-2020:5503 - Moderate: mariadb-connector-c security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Moderate: mariadb-connector-c security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for mariadb-connector-c is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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

The MariaDB Native Client library (C driver) is used to connect applications developed in C/C++ to MariaDB and MySQL databases.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: mariadb-connector-c (3.1.11). (BZ#1898993)

Security Fix(es):

• mysql: C API unspecified vulnerability (CPU Apr 2020) (CVE-2020-2752)

• mysql: C API unspecified vulnerability (CPU Apr 2020) (CVE-2020-2922)

• mariadb-connector-c: Improper validation of content in a OK packet received from server (CVE-2020-13249)

• 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.

Bug Fix(es):

• Code utilizing plugins can't be compiled properly (BZ#1899001)

• Add "zlib-devel" requirement in "-devel" subpackage (BZ#1899005)

• Replace hard-coded /usr with %{_prefix} (BZ#1899099)

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

Updated Packages

• mariadb-connector-c-debuginfo-3.1.11-2.el8_3.s390x.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-3.1.11-2.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-3.1.11-2.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-debugsource-3.1.11-2.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-3.1.11-2.el8_3.s390x.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-debugsource-3.1.11-2.el8_3.i686.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-devel-debuginfo-3.1.11-2.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-config-3.1.11-2.el8_3.noarch.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-devel-3.1.11-2.el8_3.s390x.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-devel-debuginfo-3.1.11-2.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-devel-debuginfo-3.1.11-2.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-debugsource-3.1.11-2.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-debuginfo-3.1.11-2.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-devel-3.1.11-2.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-devel-debuginfo-3.1.11-2.el8_3.i686.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-devel-debuginfo-3.1.11-2.el8_3.s390x.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-debuginfo-3.1.11-2.el8_3.i686.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-debuginfo-3.1.11-2.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-devel-3.1.11-2.el8_3.i686.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-debuginfo-3.1.11-2.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-devel-3.1.11-2.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-3.1.11-2.el8_3.i686.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-3.1.11-2.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-debugsource-3.1.11-2.el8_3.s390x.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-devel-3.1.11-2.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-3.1.11-2.el8_3.src.rpm
• mariadb-connector-c-debugsource-3.1.11-2.el8_3.aarch64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1798587
• This content is not included.BZ - 1835849
• This content is not included.BZ - 1835850
• This content is not included.BZ - 1839827
• This content is not included.BZ - 1898993
• This content is not included.BZ - 1899001
• This content is not included.BZ - 1899099

CVEs

• CVE-2020-2574
• CVE-2020-2752
• CVE-2020-2922
• CVE-2020-13249
• CVE-2021-2007

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
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