Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 / 11.10 : mysql-5.1, mysql-dfsg-5.0, mysql-dfsg-5.1 vulnerabilities (USN-1397-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 58325

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues.

MySQL has been updated to 5.1.61 in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 10.10, Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS has been updated to MySQL 5.0.95.

In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes.

Please see the following for more information :

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-x.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/news-5-0-x.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2012-366304.ht ml.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected mysql-server-5.0 and / or mysql-server-5.1 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1397-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 58325

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1397-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/13/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-server-5.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-server-5.1, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/12/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/9/2007

Exploitable With

CANVAS (White_Phosphorus)

Core Impact

Metasploit (MySQL yaSSL CertDecoder::GetName Buffer Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5925, CVE-2008-3963, CVE-2008-4098, CVE-2008-4456, CVE-2008-7247, CVE-2009-2446, CVE-2009-4019, CVE-2009-4030, CVE-2009-4484, CVE-2010-1621, CVE-2010-1626, CVE-2010-1848, CVE-2010-1849, CVE-2010-1850, CVE-2010-2008, CVE-2010-3677, CVE-2010-3678, CVE-2010-3679, CVE-2010-3680, CVE-2010-3681, CVE-2010-3682, CVE-2010-3683, CVE-2010-3833, CVE-2010-3834, CVE-2010-3835, CVE-2010-3836, CVE-2010-3837, CVE-2010-3838, CVE-2010-3839, CVE-2010-3840, CVE-2011-2262, CVE-2012-0075, CVE-2012-0087, CVE-2012-0101, CVE-2012-0102, CVE-2012-0112, CVE-2012-0113, CVE-2012-0114, CVE-2012-0115, CVE-2012-0116, CVE-2012-0117, CVE-2012-0118, CVE-2012-0119, CVE-2012-0120, CVE-2012-0484, CVE-2012-0485, CVE-2012-0486, CVE-2012-0487, CVE-2012-0488, CVE-2012-0489, CVE-2012-0490, CVE-2012-0491, CVE-2012-0492, CVE-2012-0493, CVE-2012-0494, CVE-2012-0495, CVE-2012-0496

BID: 26353, 29106, 31081, 31486, 35609, 37075, 37297, 37640, 37943, 38043, 39543, 40100, 40106, 40109, 40257, 41198, 42596, 42598, 42599, 42625, 42633, 42638, 42646, 43676, 51488, 51493, 51502, 51504, 51505, 51508, 51509, 51519, 51520, 51526

CWE: 119, 134, 20, 59, 79

USN: 1397-1