Bug 814293 (CVE-2012-1703)

Summary:	CVE-2012-1703 mysql: unspecified DoS vulnerability related to Server Optimizer (CPU Apr 2012)
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, carl.krekorian, hhorak, kvolny
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	871813, 871814
Bug Blocks:	814308, 832477

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-04-19 14:25:51 UTC

Unspecified vulnerability in the server optimizer subcomponent of the Oracle MySQL server could allow authenticated database users to cause frequently repeatable crash of the MySQL server or, potentially, underlying operating system hang via multiple protocols.

Upstream announced, supported MySQL server versions, vulnerable to this flaw:
5.1.61 and earlier and 5.5.21 and earlier

References:
[1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2012-366314.html#AppendixMSQL
[2] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2012verbose-366316.html#Oracle%20MySQL

Comment 1 Carl Krekorian 2012-05-14 14:19:32 UTC

Is there a timeframe when this bug will be fixed?

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2012-11-14 20:53:03 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1462 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1462.html

Comment 5 Vincent Danen 2013-11-06 18:47:18 UTC

Statement:

On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10, new MySQL 5.5 packages are available which are not vulnerable to this issue.  Future updates for MySQL 5.0 will no longer be made available (mysql-5.0.* and related packages); security advisories will be provided only for MySQL 5.5.  Please refer to https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2013-1330.html for further information.