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High RLSA-2026:75673 1 CVE

Important: mariadb-connector-c security update

Published Oct 6, 2026 · Updated Oct 6, 2026

Ecosystem: Rocky Linux

Summary

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

Security Fix(es):

* mariadb: MariaDB server: SQL injection vulnerability via improper handling of big5 character set with mysql_real_escape_string() (CVE-2026-44172)

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.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 9 mariadb-connector-c 0:3.2.6-2.el9_8

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 6.9
    CVE-2026-44172

    MariaDB: mysql_real_escape_string() incorrectly handled big5

    MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server. In versions 3.3.18 and 3.4.8, an application that was taking non-validated user input, escaping it with mysql_real_escape_string() and sending it to the database using text protocol and big5 charac…

    MariaDB server mariadb-10.3 mariadb-10.0 Debian Ubuntu Alpine PyPI

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488459
  • advisory
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:75673