Bug 1274779 (CVE-2015-4864)

Summary:	CVE-2015-4864 mysql: unspecified vulnerability related to Server:Security:Privileges (CPU October 2015)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	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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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	mysql 5.5.44, mysql 5.6.25, mariadb 5.5.44, mariadb 10.1.8, mariadb 10.0.20	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On:	1276223
Bug Blocks:	1274745

Description Martin Prpič 2015-10-23 13:59:37 UTC

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Server : Security : Privileges). Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.43 and earlier and 5.6.24 and earlier. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows successful authenticated network attacks via multiple protocols. Successful attack of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some MySQL Server accessible data.

External References:

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

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-10-29 07:05:18 UTC

Created community-mysql tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1276223]

Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2016-01-26 12:06:12 UTC

Oracle CPU indicates this issue was fixed in MySQL 5.5.44 and 5.6.25, hence it was already corrected in the following updates released in August 2015:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 - mysql55-mysql
  https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1628.html

Red Hat Software Collections - mysql55-mysql
  https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1629.html

Red Hat Software Collections - rh-mysql56-mysql
  https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1630.html


MariaDB upstream indicates this was fixed in versions 5.5.44, 10.0.20 and 10.1.8:

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-5544-release-notes/
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-10020-release-notes/
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-1018-release-notes/

Hence it was already corrected in the following updates released in August 2015:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 - mariadb
  https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1665.html

Red Hat Software Collections - mariadb55-mariadb
  https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1647.html

Red Hat Software Collections - rh-mariadb100-mariadb
  https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1646.html