openSUSE Security Update: xtrabackup to 2.1.8 ______________________________________________________________________________
Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2014:0363-1 Rating: moderate References: #864194 Cross-References: CVE-2014-2029 Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 ______________________________________________________________________________
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
Description:
xtrabackup was updated to 2.1.8:
Disabled the "binary version check" functionality in the VersionCheck module due to security concerns. The automatic version check remains disabled in the openSUSE package. [bnc#864194] CVE-2014-2029 More bugs fixed: * do not discard read-ahead buffers through incorrect usage of posic_fadvise() hints, which resulted in higher I/O rate on the backup stage * Spurious trailing data blocks that would normally be ignored by InnoDB could lead to an assertion failure on the backup stage * A spurious warning message could cause issues with third-party wrapper scripts * xbcrypt could fail with the xbcrypt:xb_crypt_read_chunk: unable to read chunk iv size at offset error under some circumstances * xbstream could sometimes hang when extracting a broken or incomplete input stream
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE 13.1:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-207
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):
xtrabackup-2.1.8-17.1 xtrabackup-debuginfo-2.1.8-17.1 xtrabackup-debugsource-2.1.8-17.1
References:
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-2029.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/864194