Ubuntu 19.10: USN-4250-2 Moderate: MariaDB Denial of Service

ubuntu

February 6, 2020

MariaDB clients could be made to crash if they received specially crafted input.

Summary

MariaDB clients could be made to crash if they received specially

crafted input.

Software Description:

- mariadb-10.3: MariaDB database

- mariadb-10.1: MariaDB database

Details:

It was discovered that an unspecified vulnerability existed in the C API

component of MariaDB. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of

service for MariaDB clients.

MariaDB has been updated to 10.3.22 in Ubuntu 19.10 and 10.1.44 in

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes,

new features, and possibly incompatible changes.

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service ubuntu database issue crash mariadb

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 19.10:
  libmariadb3                     1:10.3.22-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
  libmariadbd19                   1:10.3.22-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
  mariadb-client                  1:10.3.22-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
  mariadb-client-10.3             1:10.3.22-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
  mariadb-client-core-10.3        1:10.3.22-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
  mariadb-common                  1:10.3.22-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
  mariadb-plugin-connect          1:10.3.22-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
  mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check  1:10.3.22-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
  mariadb-plugin-gssapi-client    1:10.3.22-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
  mariadb-plugin-gssapi-server    1:10.3.22-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
  mariadb-plugin-mroonga          1:10.3.22-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
  mariadb-plugin-oqgraph          1:10.3.22-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
  mariadb-plugin-rocksdb          1:10.3.22-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
  mariadb-plugin-spider           1:10.3.22-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
  mariadb-plugin-tokudb           1:10.3.22-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
  mariadb-server                  1:10.3.22-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
  mariadb-server-10.3             1:10.3.22-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
  mariadb-server-core-10.3        1:10.3.22-0ubuntu0.19.10.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  libmariadbclient18              1:10.1.44-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  libmariadbd18                   1:10.1.44-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  mariadb-client                  1:10.1.44-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  mariadb-client-10.1             1:10.1.44-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  mariadb-client-core-10.1        1:10.1.44-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  mariadb-common                  1:10.1.44-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  mariadb-plugin-connect          1:10.1.44-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check  1:10.1.44-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  mariadb-plugin-gssapi-client    1:10.1.44-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  mariadb-plugin-gssapi-server    1:10.1.44-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  mariadb-plugin-mroonga          1:10.1.44-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  mariadb-plugin-oqgraph          1:10.1.44-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  mariadb-plugin-spider           1:10.1.44-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  mariadb-plugin-tokudb           1:10.1.44-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  mariadb-server                  1:10.1.44-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  mariadb-server-10.1             1:10.1.44-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  mariadb-server-core-10.1        1:10.1.44-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug
fixes. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4250-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4250-1

CVE-2020-2574, https://mariadb.com/docs/release-notes/community-server/old-releases/release-notes-mariadb-10-1-series/mariadb-10144-release-notes https://mariadb.com/docs/release-notes/community-server/old-releases/release-notes-mariadb-10-3-series/mariadb-10322-release-notes