USN-559-1: MySQL vulnerabilities
21 December 2007
MySQL vulnerabilities
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Details
Joe Gallo and Artem Russakovskii discovered that the InnoDB
engine in MySQL did not properly perform input validation. An
authenticated user could use a crafted CONTAINS statement to
cause a denial of service. (CVE-2007-5925)
It was discovered that under certain conditions MySQL could be
made to overwrite system table information. An authenticated
user could use a crafted RENAME statement to escalate privileges.
(CVE-2007-5969)
Philip Stoev discovered that the the federated engine of MySQL
did not properly handle responses with a small number of columns.
An authenticated user could use a crafted response to a SHOW
TABLE STATUS query and cause a denial of service. (CVE-2007-6304)
It was discovered that MySQL did not properly enforce access
controls. An authenticated user could use a crafted CREATE TABLE
LIKE statement to escalate privileges. (CVE-2007-3781)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 7.10
Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu 6.10
Ubuntu 6.06
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-1397-1: mysql-server-5.0, mysql-server-5.1, mysql-5.1, mysql-dfsg-5.1, mysql-dfsg-5.0