Bug 952899 (CVE-2013-1506)

Summary:	CVE-2013-1506 mysql: unspecified DoS related to Server Locking (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:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	byte, extras-orphan, 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 23:56:22 UTC

An unspecified vulnerability in the Server Locking subcomponent of Oracle MySQL allows remote authenticated attackers to cause a denial of service.

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 17:32:07 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 18:49:30 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.