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.
MariaDB is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server that is binary
compatible with MySQL.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version:
rh-mariadb103-mariadb (10.3.28), rh-mariadb103-galera (25.3.32).
Security Fix(es):
* mariadb: writable system variables allows a database user with SUPER
privilege to execute arbitrary code as the system mysql user
(CVE-2021-27928)
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.
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-27928 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source:
rh-mariadb103-galera-25.3.32-2.el7.src.rpm
rh-mariadb103-mariadb-10.3.28-2.el7.src.rpm
ppc64le:
rh-mariadb103-galera-25.3.32-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
rh-mariadb103-galera-debuginfo-25.3.32-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
rh-mariadb103-mariadb-10.3.28-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
rh-mariadb103-mariadb-backup-10.3.28-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
rh-mariadb103-mariadb-backup-syspaths-10.3.28-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
rh-mariadb103-mariadb-common-10.3.28-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
rh-mariadb103-mariadb-config-10.3.28-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
rh-mariadb103-mariadb-config-syspaths-10.3.28-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
rh-mariadb103-mariadb-connect-engine-10.3.28-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
rh-mariadb103-mariadb-debuginfo-10.3.28-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
rh-mariadb103-mariadb-devel-10.3.28-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
rh-mariadb103-mariadb-errmsg-10.3.28-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
rh-mariadb103-mariadb-gssapi-server-10.3.28-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
rh-mariadb103-mariadb-oqgraph-engine-10.3.28-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
rh-mariadb103-mariadb-server-10.3.28-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
rh-mariadb103-mariadb-server-galera-10.3.28-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
rh-mariadb103-mariadb-server-galera-syspaths-10.3.28-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
rh-mariadb103-mariadb-server-syspaths-10.3.28-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
rh-mariadb103-mariadb-server-utils-10.3.28-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
Read the Full Advisory
An update for rh-mariadb103-mariadb and rh-mariadb103-galera is nowavailable for Red Hat Software Collections.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6) - ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7) - ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64
1940909 - CVE-2021-27928 mariadb: writable system variables allows a database user with SUPER privilege to execute arbitrary code as the system mysql user
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