Bug 1274758 (CVE-2015-4807)

Summary: CVE-2015-4807 mysql: unspecified vulnerability related to Server:Query Cache (CPU October 2015)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: abaron, aortega, apevec, ayoung, chrisw, dallan, databases-maint, dciabrin, gkotton, hhorak, jdornak, jorton, jschluet, jstanek, lhh, lpeer, markmc, mbayer, mmaslano, mmuzila, rbryant, rohara, sclewis, tdecacqu, yeylon
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: mysql 5.5.46, mysql 5.6.27, mariadb 5.5.46, mariadb 10.1.8, mariadb 10.0.22 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Martin Prpič 2015-10-23 13:46:49 UTC
Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Server : Query Cache). Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.45 and earlier and 5.6.26 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 hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Server.

External References:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.html#AppendixMSQL

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-10-29 06:08:34 UTC
This issue was addressed in mariadb-10.0.22 as per the release notes at:

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-10022-release-notes/

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-10-29 06:59:45 UTC
Created mariadb tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1276224]

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-10-29 06:59:58 UTC
Created community-mysql tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1276223]

Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-10-29 07:00:11 UTC
Created mariadb-galera tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1276225]

Comment 6 Tomas Hoger 2016-01-26 12:18:46 UTC
Oracle CPU has the following note for this issue:

  This issue impacts the Windows platform only.

Marking all Red Hat and Fedora products as not affected.