Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Server: DDL). Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.57 and earlier 5.6.37 and earlier 5.7.19 and earlier. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks 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/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html#AppendixMSQL
Created mariadb tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1503703]
Created community-mysql tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1503701]
rh-mariadb102-mariadb packages in Red Hat Software Collections were first released using upstream version 10.2.8, which already includes the fix for this issue.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUS Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUS Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUS Via RHSA-2017:3265 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3265
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUS Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUS Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUS Via RHSA-2017:3442 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3442
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUS Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUS Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUS Via RHSA-2018:0279 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0279
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUS Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUS Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUS Via RHSA-2018:0574 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0574
There is a speculation that this CVE is for the "CREATE TABLE of death" issue: https://jfg-mysql.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-create-table-of-death.html https://jfg-mysql.blogspot.com/2017/10/crashing-bug-mysql-more-fun-with-innodb-persistent-statistics.html MySQL upstream commit: https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/be901b60ae59c93848c829d1b0b2cb523ab8692e MariaDB upstream commit, including reproducer: https://github.com/MariaDB/server/commit/f305a7ce4bccbd56520d874e1d81a4f29bc17a96 Described in MySQL release notes as: The server failed to check the maximum path length for partition names. (Bug #26390632) https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-58.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-38.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-20.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2018:2439 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2439