RHSA-2021:1240 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: mariadb:10.3 and mariadb-devel:10.3 security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · April 19, 2021
Updated · June 28, 2026
Topic
An update for the mariadb:10.3 and mariadb-devel:10.3 modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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
MariaDB is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server that is binary compatible with MySQL.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: mariadb (10.3.28), galera (25.3.32).
Security Fix(es):
- mariadb: writable system variables allows a database user with SUPER privilege to execute arbitrary code as the system mysql user (CVE-2021-27928)
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.