Bug 1274787 (CVE-2015-4904) - CVE-2015-4904 mysql: unspecified vulnerability related to libmysqld (CPU October 2015)
Summary: CVE-2015-4904 mysql: unspecified vulnerability related to libmysqld (CPU Octo...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-4904
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1276223
Blocks: 1274745
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Reported: 2015-10-23 14:07 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:46 UTC (History)
25 users (show)

Fixed In Version: mysql 5.6.26
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Last Closed: 2015-10-29 07:29:14 UTC
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Description Martin Prpič 2015-10-23 14:07:30 UTC 
Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: libmysqld). Supported versions that are affected are 5.6.25 and earlier. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows successful authenticated network attacks via multiple protocols. Successful attack of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Server.

External References:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.html#AppendixMSQL
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-10-29 07:07:50 UTC 
Created community-mysql tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1276223]
Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2016-01-26 11:50:47 UTC 
Oracle CPU indicates this issue was fixed in MySQL 5.6.26, hence it was already corrected in the following update released in August 2015:

Red Hat Software Collections - rh-mysql56-mysql
  https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1630.html
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