SB2022092649 - Denial of service in MariaDB
Published: September 26, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2022092649
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-38791)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to compress_write() function in extra/mariabackup/ds_compress.cc does not release data_mutex upon a stream write failure. A local user can trigger a deadlock and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.