Bug 867521 (CVE-2012-3149)

Summary:	CVE-2012-3149 mysql: unspecified client vulnerability with confidentiality impact
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	byte, hhorak, rmillner, tgl, tkramer
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	mysql 5.5.27	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2012-10-26 13:09:24 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	867241, 870399

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-10-17 16:08:29 UTC

Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.5.26 and earlier, allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to MySQL client.

References:
[1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2012-1515893.html

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2012-10-26 13:09:24 UTC

Text of the Oracle flaw description:

  Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent:
  MySQL Client). Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.26 and earlier.
  Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows successful authenticated network
  attacks via multiple protocols. Successful attack of this vulnerability can
  result in unauthorized read access to a subset of MySQL Server accessible data.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2012verbose-1515934.html#MSQL


Upstream notes this issue only affected MySQL versions 5.5.  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 include MySQL versions 5.0.x and 5.1.x respectively, which are not listed as affected.  Current Fedora versions are already updated to fixed upstream version.  Closing.