This blog is an announcement for a Percona Server update with regards to CVE-2016-6662. We have added a fix for CVE-2016-6662 in the following releases: Percona Server 5.5.51-38.1 Percona Server 5.5.51-38.2 Percona Server 5.6.32-78.0 Percona Server 5.6.32-78.1 Percona Server 5.7.14-7 Percona Server 5.7.14-8 Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.41-25.11.1 Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.30-25.16.2 Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.30-25.16.3 From […]
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We have had to revert back to TLSv1.0. If you saw my previous post on TLSv1.0 (https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/05/23/percona-disabling-tlsv1-0-may-31st-2016/), you’ll know I wanted to deprecate TLSv1.0 well ahead of PCI’s changes. We made the changes May 31st. Unfortunately, it has become apparent that EL 5, which is in the final phases of End Of Life, does not support TLSv1.1 […]
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As of May 31st, 2016, we will be disabling TLSv1.0 support on www.percona.com, repo.percona.com, etc. This is ahead of the PCI changes that will affect the June 30th 2016 deprecation the TLSv1.0 protocol. (PDF) What does this mean for you the user? Based on analysis of our IDS logs, this will affect around 6.32% of requests. […]
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This blog post will discuss how to Mitigate DROWN CVE-2016-0800. Unless you’ve been living in a cave you’ll have heard (or likely to hear about soon) the drown attack. From the Red Hat site: “A padding oracle flaw was found in the Secure Sockets Layer version 2.0 (SSLv2) protocol. An attacker can potentially use this […]
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Earlier today advisories were sent out regarding OpenSSH versions 5.4 through 7.1., informing users about a security bug in the software. In essence, the advisory instructed people to add the UseRoaming no option to their ssh_config file, with a promise for further information to be made available shortly. Add undocumented "UseRoaming no" to ssh_config or use "-oUseRoaming=no" […]
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Symantec published a blog post yesterday regarding MySQL and the Trojan.Chikdos.A as can be seen here The Symantec post gives detail into the behavior of the Trojan and it’s effects on the Windows system registry, yet gives little detail as to how the required first stage (namely a malicious UDF) is injected, citing: “In the […]
Read MoreWe have recently become a member of oCERT to aid in allowing responsible disclosure for Percona products and services as can be seen on their members page. We are presently working on the verbiage for the responsible disclosure program, and we are also investigating establishing a bug bounty program. In the mean time you can […]
Read MoreContents Summary Analysis Mitigating factors P.O.C Acknowledgments Summary During a code audit performed internally at Percona, we discovered a viable information disclosure attack when coupled with a MITM attack in which percona-toolkit and xtrabackup perl components could be coerced into returning additional MySQL configuration information. The vulnerability has since been closed. Timeline 2014-12-16 Initial research, […]
Read MoreThe CVE-2015-0204 FREAK SSL vulnerability abuses intentionally weak “EXPORT” ciphers which could be used to perform a transparent Man In The Middle attack. (We seem to be continually bombarded with not only SSL vulnerabilities but the need to name vulnerabilities with increasing odd names.) Is your server vulnerable? This can be tested using the following GIST […]
Read MoreCloud security company Qualys announced Tuesday the issues prevalent in glibc since version 2.2 introduced in 2000-11-10 (the complete Qualys announcement may be viewed here). The vulnerability, CVE-2015-0235, has been dubbed “GHOST.” As the announcement from Qualys indicates, it is believed that MySQL and by extension Percona Server are not affected by this issue. Percona […]
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