Bug 27960

Summary:	db53 new security issue CVE-2019-2708
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	David Walser <luigiwalser>
Component:	Security	Assignee:	QA Team <qa-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Sec team <security>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	andrewsfarm, ouaurelien, sysadmin-bugs, thierry.vignaud
Version:	7	Keywords:	advisory, validated_update
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	MGA7-64-OK
Source RPM:	db53-5.3.28-17.mga7.src.rpm	CVE:	CVE-2019-2708
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	27752

Description David Walser 2020-12-28 15:32:19 CET

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #27752 +++

Thierry fixed this issue in Cauldron:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1853242

db48 is probably also affected (leaving that in Bug 27752).

Fedora has issued an advisory for this today (December 16):
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/OQFKX6NKU2DCW5CTCHQSOJJDFVRVTPO6/

Patched package uploaded for Mageia 7 by Thierry.

Advisory:
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Updated db53 packages fix security vulnerability:

Vulnerability in the Data Store component of Oracle Berkeley DB. Easily
exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker having Local Logon
privilege with logon to the infrastructure where Data Store executes to
compromise Data Store. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in
unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Data
Store (CVE-2019-2708).

References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-2708
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/OQFKX6NKU2DCW5CTCHQSOJJDFVRVTPO6/
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Updated packages in core/updates_testing:
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libdb5.3-5.3.28-17.1.mga7
libdbcxx5.3-5.3.28-17.1.mga7
libdbsql5.3-5.3.28-17.1.mga7
libdbjava5.3-5.3.28-17.1.mga7
libdbtcl5.3-5.3.28-17.1.mga7
db53-utils-5.3.28-17.1.mga7
db53_recover-5.3.28-17.1.mga7
libdb5.3-devel-5.3.28-17.1.mga7
libdb5.3-static-devel-5.3.28-17.1.mga7

from db53-5.3.28-17.1.mga7.src.rpm

Comment 1 Thomas Andrews 2021-01-28 02:26:31 CET

The following 5 packages are going to be installed:

- db53-utils-5.3.28-17.1.mga7.x86_64
- db53_recover-5.3.28-17.1.mga7.x86_64
- lib64db5.3-5.3.28-17.1.mga7.x86_64
- lib64dbcxx5.3-5.3.28-17.1.mga7.x86_64
- lib64dbsql5.3-5.3.28-17.1.mga7.x86_64

No installation issues.

when searching for past updates, I came across bug 21203, which concerned this and other components of the Berkley Database. After much discussion, the update was finally validated on a clean install. So...

Validating. Advisory in Comment 0.

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA7-64-OK
CC: (none) => andrewsfarm, sysadmin-bugs

Comment 2 Aurelien Oudelet 2021-01-29 10:02:47 CET

Advisory commited to SVN.

CC: (none) => ouaurelien
Keywords: (none) => advisory
CVE: (none) => CVE-2019-2708

Comment 3 Mageia Robot 2021-01-29 20:06:46 CET

An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0057.html

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED