Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2012-1735 to the following vulnerability: Name: CVE-2012-1735 URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1735 Assigned: 20120316 Reference: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2012-392727.html Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL Server 5.5.23 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Server Optimizer.
According to upstream security page, this issue only affected MySQL 5.5.x versions and did not affect 5.1.x versions. MySQL versions shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux are older than 5.5 (5.0.x in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 5.1.x in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6). MySQL packages in Fedora are already updated to fixed upstream version (all supported Fedora versions currently have 5.5.25a). Upstream has not provided any further details about this flaw.