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USN-4603-1: MariaDB vulnerabilities

27 October 2020

Several security issues were fixed in MariaDB.

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Releases

Packages

Details

It was discovered that MariaDB didn't properly validate the content of a packet
received from a server. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to sent
a specialy crafted file to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-13249)

It was discovered that MariaDB has other security issues. An attacker can cause
a hang or frequently repeatable crash (denial of service). (CVE-2020-15180,
CVE-2020-2752, CVE-2020-2760, CVE-2020-2812, CVE-2020-2814)

In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new
features, and possibly incompatible changes.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug
fixes. After a standard system update you need to restart MariaDB to
make all the necessary changes.

Related notices

  • USN-4350-1: libmysqlclient20, mysql-router, mysql-server, mysql-client-5.7, mysql-common, mysql-source-8.0, mysql-client-core-5.7, mysql-server-8.0, mysql-5.7, libmysqlclient-dev, mysql-client-8.0, mysql-client, mysql-client-core-8.0, mysql-server-core-8.0, libmysqlclient21, mysql-testsuite, mysql-server-core-5.7, mysql-source-5.7, mysql-8.0, libmysqld-dev, mysql-testsuite-8.0, mysql-testsuite-5.7, mysql-server-5.7