CVE-2020-7221

mysql_install_db in MariaDB 10.4.7 through 10.4.11 allows privilege escalation from the mysql user account to root because chown and chmod are performed unsafely, as demonstrated by a symlink attack on a chmod 04755 of auth_pam_tool_dir/auth_pam_tool. NOTE: this does not affect the Oracle MySQL product, which implements mysql_install_db differently.

mysql_install_db in MariaDB 10.4.7 through 10.4.11 allows privilege escalation from the mysql user account to root because chown and chmod are performed unsafely, as demonstrated by a symlink attack on a chmod 04755 of auth_pam_tool_dir/auth_pam_tool. NOTE: this does not affect the Oracle MySQL product, which implements mysql_install_db differently.

mysql_install_db in MariaDB 10.4.7 through 10.4.11 allows privilege escalation from the mysql user account to root because chown and chmod are performed unsafely, as demonstrated by a symlink attack on a chmod 04755 of auth_pam_tool_dir/auth_pam_tool. NOTE: this does not affect the Oracle MySQL product, which implements mysql_install_db differently.

These are all security issues fixed in the libmariadbd-devel-10.6.4-2.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

This update for mariadb104 fixes the following issues:

• Implement version 10.4 of MariaDB (jsc#PED-2455):
  • It is possible to use more than one authentication plugin for each user account.
  • The root user account is being created with the ability to use two authentication plugins.
  • All user accounts, passwords, and global privileges are now stored in the mysql.global_priv table.
  • Is being supported for User Password Expiry, which is not active by default.
  • Faster privilege checks for MariaDB setups with many user accounts or many database grants.
• Update mysql-systemd-helper to be aware of custom group (bsc#1200105)
• MariaDB is now support lz4 compression for 'INNODB'. (bsc#1186031)
• Add 'mysql-user.conf' file to enable systemd generating mysql user in containers. (bsc#1173028)
• Fixes an issue when MariaDB is ignoring the value of the parameter 'open_files_limit' in the global variables. (bsc#1180014)

This update for mariadb104 fixes the following issues:

• Implement version 10.4 of MariaDB (jsc#PED-2455):
  • It is possible to use more than one authentication plugin for each user account.
  • The root user account is being created with the ability to use two authentication plugins.
  • All user accounts, passwords, and global privileges are now stored in the mysql.global_priv table.
  • Is being supported for User Password Expiry, which is not active by default.
  • Faster privilege checks for MariaDB setups with many user accounts or many database grants.
• Update mysql-systemd-helper to be aware of custom group (bsc#1200105)
• MariaDB is now support lz4 compression for 'INNODB'. (bsc#1186031)
• Add 'mysql-user.conf' file to enable systemd generating mysql user in containers. (bsc#1173028)
• Fixes an issue when MariaDB is ignoring the value of the parameter 'open_files_limit' in the global variables. (bsc#1180014)