MGASA-2020-0345 - Updated mysql-connector-python packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 25 Aug 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0345.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2019-2435

Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network
access via TLS to compromise MySQL Connectors. Successful attacks require human
interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this
vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification
access to critical data or all MySQL Connectors accessible data as well as
unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all MySQL Connectorsaccessible data (CVE-2019-2435).

Also, the protobuf package was updated to add a python3 subpackage, which was
needed for this update.

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26402
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2019.html
- - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-2435

SRPMS:
- 7/core/protobuf-3.6.1-1.1.mga7
- 7/core/mysql-connector-python-8.0.20-1.mga7