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Ubuntu: 21.04 & 20.04 LTS USN-5022-2 Critical MariaDB Threat Fix

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Calendar Grey August 13, 2021
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Updates were released for PostgreSQL addressing safety vulnerabilities on Ubuntu 21.04 and 20.04 LTS, resolving significant security concerns.
Several security issues were fixed in MariaDB.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in MariaDB.

Software Description:

- mariadb-10.5: MariaDB database

- mariadb-10.3: MariaDB database

Details:

USN-5022-1 fixed multiple vulnerabilities in MySQL. This update provides the

corresponding fixes for CVE-2021-2372 and CVE-2021-2389 in MariaDB 10.3 and

10.5.

In addition to security fixes, the updated package contain bug fixes, new

features, and possibly incompatible changes.

Please see the following for more information:

https://mariadb.com/docs/release-notes/community-server/changelogs/changelogs-mariadb-10-3-series/mariadb-10331-changelog

https://mariadb.com/docs/release-notes/community-server/changelogs/changelogs-mariadb-105-series/mariadb-10512-changelog

Original advisory details:

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes

new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues.

MySQL has been updated to 8.0.26 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 21.04.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS has be...

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 21.04:
  mariadb-server                  1:10.5.12-0ubuntu0.21.04.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  mariadb-server                  1:10.3.31-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5022-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5022-1

CVE-2021-2372, CVE-2021-2389

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mariadb-10.5/1:10.5.12-0ubuntu0.21.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mariadb-10.3/1:10.3.31-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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