Bug 628062 (CVE-2010-3679)

Summary:	CVE-2010-3679 MySQL: Use of unassigned memory (valgrind errors / crash) by providing certain values to BINLOG statement (MySQL BZ#54393)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	byte, hhorak, kvolny, vdanen, vkrizan
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	636780, 652553, 652554
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-08-27 18:37:47 UTC

A use of unassigned memory was found in the way MySQL processed certain values
provided to the BINLOG statement. A remote attacker could use this flaw to
cause denial of service (mysqld daemon crash) in some cases.

References:
  [1] http://secunia.com/advisories/41048/
  [2] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-49.html

Upstream bug report:
  [3] http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=54393

Upstream changeset:
  [4] http://lists.mysql.com/commits/111591

Note:
The impact of this flaw is further mitigated by the requirement only
privileged user can run the BINLOG statement.

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-08-27 18:41:57 UTC

Public reproducers (from [4]):

BINLOG '';
BINLOG '123';
BINLOG '-2079193929';
BINLOG 'xç↓%~∙D╒ƒ╡';

Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-08-28 12:15:41 UTC

This issue did NOT affect the versions of the mysql package, as shipped
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.

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This issue affects the versions of the mysql package, as shipped with
Fedora release of 12 and 13.

Comment 5 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-08-31 12:54:44 UTC

CVE Request: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/30/8

Comment 6 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-09-23 09:19:14 UTC

Created mysql tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 636780]

Comment 7 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-09-29 08:40:16 UTC

The CVE identifier of CVE-2010-3679 has been assigned to this issue.

Comment 8 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-09-29 09:55:04 UTC

Statement:

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

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-18 18:43:10 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:0164 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0164.html