openSUSE Security Update: percona-toolkit,xtrabackup: disable remote version check
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Announcement ID:    openSUSE-SU-2014:0333-1
Rating:             important
References:         #864194 
Cross-References:   CVE-2014-2029
Affected Products:
                    openSUSE 13.1
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   An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description:


   percona-toolkit and xtrabackup were updated:
   - disable automatic version check for all tools
   [bnc#864194] Prevents transmission of version information
   to an external host in the default configuration.
   CVE-2014-2029 Can be used by owner of a Percona Server
   (or an attacker who can control this destination for the
   client) to collect arbitrary MySQL configuration
   parameters and execute commands (with -v). Now the
   version check needs to be requested via command line or
   global/tool specific/user configuration. (--version-check)
   - added /etc/percona-toolkit/percona-toolkit.conf
   configuration directory and template configuration file


Patch Instructions:

   To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
   Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

   - openSUSE 13.1:

      zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-184

   To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".


Package List:

   - openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

      xtrabackup-2.1.7-13.2
      xtrabackup-debuginfo-2.1.7-13.2
      xtrabackup-debugsource-2.1.7-13.2

   - openSUSE 13.1 (noarch):

      percona-toolkit-2.2.7-2.10.1


References:

   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-2029.html
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/864194

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