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GLSA-200711-25 : MySQL: Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 28264

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200711-25 (MySQL: Denial of Service)

 Joe Gallo and Artem Russakovskii reported an error in the convert_search_mode_to_innobase() function in ha_innodb.cc in the InnoDB engine that is leading to a failed assertion when handling CONTAINS operations.
 Impact :

 A remote authenticated attacker with ALTER privileges could send a specially crafted request to a vulnerable database server possibly leading to a Denial of Service.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All MySQL users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=dev-db/mysql-5.0.44-r2'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200711-25

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 28264

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200711-25.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Published: 11/20/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:mysql, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/18/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5925

BID: 26353

CWE: 20

GLSA: 200711-25