Today, 2024-03-13, Nutanix released a new version of Nutanix Database Service, NDB, meaning the latest available version is 2.5.4. The release comes with a strong focus on security and it also bring improvements and fixes for Oracle, MSSQL & PostgreSQL in addition to RHEL 8.8 support for Oracle v19, PostgreSQL community edition v15, MySQL v8.0.36 & MariaDB 10.3.
The following security vulnerabilities has been fixed on the NDB server(s) and NDB agent VM(s):
- CentOS 7 : kernel (RHSA-2023:5622)
- CentOS 7 : bind (RHSA-2023:5691)
- CentOS 7 : kernel (RHSA-2023:7423)
- CentOS 7 : linux-firmware (RHSA-2023:7513)
- CentOS 7 : open-vm-tools (RHSA-2023:7279)
- CentOS 7 : cups (RHSA-2023:4766)
- CentOS 7 : java-1.8.0-openjdk (RHSA-2023:5761)
- CentOS 7 : openssh (RHSA-2023:4382)
- CentOS 7 : python (RHSA-2023:6885)
- CentOS 7 : python3 (RHSA-2023:6823)
- CentOS 7 : libssh2 (RHSA-2023:5615)
- CentOS 7 : curl (RHSA-2023:7743)
- Missing Content Security Policy
- SSH Server CBC Mode Ciphers Enabled
- CentOS 7 : java-1.8.0-openjdk (RHSA-2024:0223)
- CentOS 7 : kernel (RHSA-2024:0346)
- OpenJDK 8 <= 8u392 / 11.0.0 <= 11.0.21 / 17.0.0 <= 17.0.9 / 21.0.0 <= 21.0.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (2024-01-16)
- SSH Weak Key Exchange Algorithms Enabled
The following software versions are supported with NDB 2.5.3
- AOS – 6.7, 6.6, 6.5, 6.1.1, 6.1, 6.0.x, 5.20.x, 5.15.x
- AHV versions bundled with AOS 6.7, 6.6, 6.5, 6.1.1, 6.1, 6.0.x, 5.20.x, 5.15.x
- vSphere 7.0, 6.7, and 6.5
Useful links
NDB 2.5.4 Download or download via NDB UI
Njoy the new NDB version ….