RHSA-2020:5660 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: mariadb-connector-c security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · December 22, 2020

Updated · June 28, 2026

Topic

An update for mariadb-connector-c is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The MariaDB Native Client library (C driver) is used to connect applications developed in C/C++ to MariaDB and MySQL databases.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: mariadb-connector-c (3.1.11). (BZ#1898996)

Security Fix(es):

mysql: C API unspecified vulnerability (CPU Apr 2020) (CVE-2020-2752)
mysql: C API unspecified vulnerability (CPU Apr 2020) (CVE-2020-2922)
mariadb-connector-c: Improper validation of content in a OK packet received from server (CVE-2020-13249)
mysql: C API unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2020) (CVE-2020-2574)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

Code utilizing plugins can't be compiled properly (BZ#1899003)
Add "zlib-devel" requirement in "-devel" subpackage (BZ#1899007)
Replace hard-coded /usr with %{_prefix} (BZ#1899101)