Bug 952862 (CVE-2013-2378)

Summary:	CVE-2013-2378 mysql: unspecified vulnerability related to Information Schema (CPU April 2013)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	Bjorn.Munch, byte, hhorak
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	953084, 953085
Bug Blocks:	952846, 952853

Description Vincent Danen 2013-04-16 21:41:06 UTC

An unspecified vulnerability in the Information Schema subcomponent of Oracle MySQL allows remote authenticated attackers to cause a denial of service as well as impact the confidentiality and integrity of the server via unspecified vectors.

This flaw affects MySQL 5.1.67 and earlier, 5.5.29 and earlier, and 5.6.10 and earlier.

External References:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2013-1899555.html#AppendixMSQL

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2013-04-25 17:31:11 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0772 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0772.html

Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2013-11-06 18:44:00 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.