Bug 1053361 (CVE-2013-5860)

Summary: CVE-2013-5860 mysql: unspecified DoS related to GIS subcomponent (CPU Jan 2014)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: byte, databases-maint, drieden, hhorak, jdornak, jkurik, jstanek, mmaslano, nobody+bgollahe, pfrields, tdawson, tkramer
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-01-15 06:18:21 UTC 
Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: GIS). Supported versions that are affected are 5.6.14 and earlier. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows successful authenticated network attacks via multiple protocols. Successful attack of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized Operating System hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS).


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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2014verbose-1972951.html#MSQL
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-01-15 08:31:40 UTC 
Upstream data suggests that this issue only affects the version of MySQL 5.6.14 and earlier.

This issue does not affect the version of mysql as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

This issue does not affect the version of community-mysql and mariadb as shipped with Fedora-19 and Fedora-20
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-01-15 08:35:39 UTC 
Statement:

Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of mysql55-mysql package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue does not affect the version of mysql as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.