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Fedora 42: Important Advisory for MariaDB 11.8.5 Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey January 22, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade to MariaDB 11.8.5 in Fedora 42 to fix a critical remote code execution flaw with important severity.
MariaDB 11.8.5 Release notes: server/11.8/11.8.5

Summary

MariaDB is a community developed fork from MySQL - a multi-user, multi-threaded

SQL database server. It is a client/server implementation consisting of

a server daemon (mariadbd) and many different client programs and libraries.

The base package contains the standard MariaDB/MySQL client programs and

utilities.

Update Information:

MariaDB 11.8.5 Release notes: server/11.8/11.8.5

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora remote code execution upgrade MariaDB severity important

Change Log

* Thu Nov 20 2025 Pavol Sloboda - 3:11.8.5-1 - Rebase to 11.8.5 * Wed Oct 29 2025 Lukas Javorsky - 3:11.8.3-5 - Revert to soft static allocation of MariaDB and MySQL sysusers.d files * Wed Oct 29 2025 Nikola Davidova - 3:11.8.3-4 - Bump release for tmpfiles.d change * Tue Sep 30 2025 Petr Khartskhaev - 3:11.8.3-3 - Bump release for package rebuild * Tue Aug 12 2025 Michal Schorm - 3:11.8.3-2 - Bump release for package rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2413295 - mariadb11.8-11.8.5 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2413295 [ 2 ] Bug #2417695 - CVE-2025-13699 mariadb11.8: MariaDB: mariadb-dump utility vulnerable to remote code execution via improper path validation [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2417695 [ 3 ] Bug #2417697 - CVE-2025-13699 mariadb11.8: MariaDB: mariadb-dump utility vulnerable to remote code execution via improper path validation [fedora-43] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2417697

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-f677c523ec' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: mariadb11.8
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 11.8.5
Release: 1.fc42
URL: http://mariadb.org
Summary: A very fast and robust SQL database server

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora remote code execution upgrade MariaDB severity important

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