MySQL was updated to version 5.5.37 to address various security issues.

More information is available at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2014-1972949.h tml#AppendixMSQL and http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2014-1972952.h tml#AppendixMSQL .

Updated mysql packages that fix several security issues and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

MySQL is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. It consists of the MySQL server daemon (mysqld) and many client programs and libraries.

This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the MySQL database server. Information about these flaws can be found on the Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory page, listed in the References section.
(CVE-2014-0386, CVE-2014-0393, CVE-2014-0401, CVE-2014-0402, CVE-2014-0412, CVE-2014-0437, CVE-2013-5908)

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the MySQL command line client tool (mysql) processed excessively long version strings. If a user connected to a malicious MySQL server via the mysql client, the server could use this flaw to crash the mysql client or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running the mysql client.
(CVE-2014-0001)

The CVE-2014-0001 issue was discovered by Garth Mollett of the Red Hat Security Response Team.

This update also fixes the following bug :

* Prior to this update, MySQL did not check whether a MySQL socket was actually being used by any process before starting the mysqld service.
If a particular mysqld service did not exit cleanly while a socket was being used by a process, this socket was considered to be still in use during the next start-up of this service, which resulted in a failure to start the service up. With this update, if a socket exists but is not used by any process, it is ignored during the mysqld service start-up. (BZ#1058719)

These updated packages upgrade MySQL to version 5.1.73. Refer to the MySQL Release Notes listed in the References section for a complete list of changes.

All MySQL users should upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues. After installing this update, the MySQL server daemon (mysqld) will be restarted automatically.

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in mariadb :

Buffer overflow in client/mysql.cc in Oracle MySQL and MariaDB before 5.5.35 allows remote database servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long server version string (CVE-2014-0001).

Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.1.72 and earlier, 5.5.34 and earlier, and 5.6.14 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to InnoDB (CVE-2014-0412).

Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.1.72 and earlier, 5.5.34 and earlier, and 5.6.14 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Optimizer (CVE-2014-0437).

Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.1.72 and earlier, 5.5.34 and earlier, and 5.6.14 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Error Handling (CVE-2013-5908).

Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.5.34 and earlier, and 5.6.14 and earlier, allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Replication (CVE-2014-0420).

Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.1.71 and earlier, 5.5.33 and earlier, and 5.6.13 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect integrity via unknown vectors related to InnoDB (CVE-2014-0393).

Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.5.33 and earlier and 5.6.13 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Partition (CVE-2013-5891).

Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.1.71 and earlier, 5.5.33 and earlier, and 5.6.13 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Optimizer (CVE-2014-0386).

Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.1.72 and earlier, 5.5.34 and earlier, and 5.6.14 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via unknown vectors (CVE-2014-0401).

Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.1.71 and earlier, 5.5.33 and earlier, and 5.6.13 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Locking (CVE-2014-0402).

The updated packages have been upgraded to the 5.5.35 version which is not vulnerable to these issues.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:0186 advisory.

    MySQL is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. It consists of     the MySQL server daemon (mysqld) and many client programs and libraries.

    This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the MySQL database server.
    Information about these flaws can be found on the Oracle Critical Patch     Update Advisory page, listed in the References section. (CVE-2013-5807,     CVE-2013-5891, CVE-2014-0386, CVE-2014-0393, CVE-2014-0401, CVE-2014-0402,     CVE-2014-0412, CVE-2014-0420, CVE-2014-0437, CVE-2013-3839, CVE-2013-5908)

    A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the MySQL command line client     tool (mysql) processed excessively long version strings. If a user     connected to a malicious MySQL server via the mysql client, the server     could use this flaw to crash the mysql client or, potentially, execute     arbitrary code as the user running the mysql client. (CVE-2014-0001)

    The CVE-2014-0001 issue was discovered by Garth Mollett of the Red Hat     Security Response Team.

    These updated packages upgrade MySQL to version 5.5.36. Refer to the MySQL     Release Notes listed in the References section for a complete list     of changes.

    All MySQL users should upgrade to these updated packages, which correct     these issues. After installing this update, the MySQL server daemon     (mysqld) will be restarted automatically.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the MySQL command line client tool (mysql) processed excessively long version strings. If a user connected to a malicious MySQL server via the mysql client, the server could use this flaw to crash the mysql client or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running the mysql client.
(CVE-2014-0001)

Upstream does not issue any more security advisories for the MySQL 5.0 packages (mysql-5.0.* and related packages). 

The only trusted way to upgrade from MySQL 5.0 to MySQL 5.5 is by using MySQL 5.1 as an intermediate step. This is why the mysql51* Software Collection packages are provided. Note that the MySQL 5.1 packages are not supported and are provided only for the purposes of migrating to MySQL 5.5. You should not use the mysql51* packages on any of your production systems.

Specific instructions for this migration are provided by the upstream Deployment Guide.

After installing this update, the MySQL server daemon (mysqld) will be restarted automatically.

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update which has been documented in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2014:0189.

This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the MySQL database server. (CVE-2014-0386 , CVE-2014-0393 , CVE-2014-0401 , CVE-2014-0402 , CVE-2014-0412 , CVE-2014-0437 , CVE-2013-5908)

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the MySQL command line client tool (mysql) processed excessively long version strings. If a user connected to a malicious MySQL server via the mysql client, the server could use this flaw to crash the mysql client or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running the mysql client.
(CVE-2014-0001)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
74373	SuSE 11.3 Security Update : MySQL (SAT Patch Number 9303)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	6/7/2014	1/19/2021	critical
72491	CentOS 6 : mysql (CESA-2014:0164)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	2/14/2014	1/4/2021	high
72495	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mariadb (MDVSA-2014:028)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	2/14/2014	1/6/2021	high
72568	RHEL 5 : mysql55-mysql (RHSA-2014:0186)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	2/19/2014	11/4/2024	medium
72569	Scientific Linux Security Update : mysql55-mysql on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20140218)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	2/19/2014	1/14/2021	high
72864	CentOS 6 : mariadb55-mariadb (CESA-2014:0189)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	3/7/2014	1/4/2021	high
72946	Amazon Linux AMI : mysql51 (ALAS-2014-298)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	3/12/2014	4/18/2018	high

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