Bug 1088217 (CVE-2014-2451)

Summary:	CVE-2014-2451 mysql: unspecified DoS related to Privileges (CPU April 2014)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	byte, databases-maint, hhorak, jdornak, jkurik, jstanek, mmaslano, pfrields
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1088237
Bug Blocks:	1088219

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-04-16 09:11:31 UTC

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Privileges). Supported versions that are affected are 5.6.15 and earlier. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows successful authenticated network attacks via multiple protocols. Successful attack of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of MySQL Server.



External References:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2014-1972952.html#AppendixMSQL

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-04-16 09:53:14 UTC

Created community-mysql tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-rawhide [bug 1088237]

Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2014-05-02 10:18:53 UTC

This issue was only reported to affect MySQL 5.6, which is not currently shipped as part of any Red Hat product.