Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : mysql-dfsg-5.0 vulnerabilities (USN-338-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27917

Synopsis

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

Description

Dmitri Lenev discovered that arguments of setuid SQL functions were evaluated in the security context of the functions' definer instead of its caller. An authenticated user with the privilege to call such a function could exploit this to execute arbitrary statements with the privileges of the definer of that function. (CVE-2006-4227)

Peter Gulutzan reported a potentially confusing situation of the MERGE table engine. If an user creates a merge table, and the administrator later revokes privileges on the original table only (without changing the privileges on the merge table), that user still has access to the data by using the merge table. This is intended behaviour, but might be undesirable in some installations; this update introduces a new server option '--skip-merge' which disables the MERGE engine completely. (CVE-2006-4031).

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 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/338-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27917

File Name: ubuntu_USN-338-1.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmysqlclient15-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmysqlclient15off, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-client-5.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-server-5.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/5/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-4031, CVE-2006-4227

BID: 19279

CWE: 20

USN: 338-1