Bug 590190 (CVE-2010-1621)

Summary:	CVE-2010-1621 MySQL UNINSTALL PLUGIN requires no privileges
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	byte, kvolny, tgl
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Description Josh Bressers 2010-05-08 01:11:49 UTC

UNINSTALL PLUGIN, looking in the mysql_uninstall_plugin() function shows
that there is no code at all for checking required privileges. This means
that ANY user, even a user with no privileges, can uninstall ANY plugin.
(At least plugins that are loaded dynamically.)

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=51770

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2010-05-10 08:17:52 UTC

Upstream commit:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mysql/mysql-server/mysql-5.1-bugteam/revision/3351.1.45

Fixed upstream in 5.1.46:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-46.html

This issue does not affect mysql packages version in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5, as they don't support plugins.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2010-05-10 09:49:08 UTC

mysql-5.1.46-1.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/mysql-5.1.46-1.fc11

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-05-10 09:49:55 UTC

mysql-5.1.46-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/mysql-5.1.46-1.fc12

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2010-05-10 09:50:01 UTC

mysql-5.1.46-1.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/mysql-5.1.46-1.fc13

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2010-05-13 19:25:06 UTC

mysql-5.1.46-1.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2010-05-13 19:27:04 UTC

mysql-5.1.46-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2010-05-13 19:32:16 UTC

mysql-5.1.46-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Tomas Hoger 2010-05-14 06:55:32 UTC

Statement:

Not vulnerable. These issues did not affect the versions of mysql as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.