Improper Privilege Management in mariadb (Alpine package)



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2017-3257
CWE-ID CWE-269
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 mariadb (Alpine package)
Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component

Vendor Alpine Linux Development Team

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Improper Privilege Management

EUVDB-ID: #VU33568

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 4.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-3257

CWE-ID: CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Server: InnoDB). Supported versions that are affected are 5.6.34 and earlier5.7.16 and earlier. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Server. CVSS v3.0 Base Score 6.5 (Availability impacts).

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

mariadb (Alpine package): 10.1.19-r0 - 10.1.20-r0

CPE2.3 External links

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=a907a102e9dea884f13defde2d37b21d2fc01a0c
https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=f75a55d7e8bfb8de318319e51b46c9040507bb33
https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=7ea78917255c8fac1237c165434f38820f0f34db


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote authenticated user via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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