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Unspecified vulnerability in the MyISAM subcomponent of the Oracle MySQL server could allow authenticated database users to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash of the MySQL server via multiple protocols. Upstream announced, supported MySQL server versions, vulnerable to this flaw: 5.1.60 and earlier and 5.5.19 and earlier References: [1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2012-366314.html#AppendixMSQL [2] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2012verbose-366316.html#Oracle%20MySQL
According to upstream advisory, this issue was fixed in version 5.1.61. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 mysql packages were previously updated to 5.1.61 via RHSA-2012:0105: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0105.html
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.