Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Server: Optimizer). Supported versions that are affected are 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. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.5 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

The version of MySQL running on the remote host is 5.7.x prior to 5.7.20. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as noted in the October 2017 Critical Patch Update advisory. Please consult the CVRF details for the applicable CVEs for additional information.

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

MySQL has been updated to 5.5.58 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 17.04 and Ubuntu 17.10 have been updated to MySQL 5.7.20.

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/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-58.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-20.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626 .html.

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.

The version of MySQL running on the remote host is 5.7.x prior to 5.7.20. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as noted in the October 2017 Critical Patch Update advisory. Please consult the CVRF details for the applicable CVEs for additional information.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Oracle reports :

Please reference CVE/URL list for details

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
700624	MySQL 5.7.x < 5.7.20 Multiple Vulnerabilities (October 2017 CPU)	Nessus Network Monitor	Database	high
104120	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : MySQL vulnerabilities (USN-3459-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
104050	MySQL 5.7.x < 5.7.20 Multiple Vulnerabilities (October 2017 CPU)	Nessus	Databases	high
103967	MySQL 5.7.x < 5.7.20 Multiple Vulnerabilities (RPM Check) (Oct 2017 CPU)	Nessus	Databases	high
103954	FreeBSD : MySQL -- multiple vulnerabilities (c41bedfd-b3f9-11e7-ac58-b499baebfeaf)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2017-10167

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Tenable Plugins

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