National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0903
Original release date:02/27/2006
Last revised:04/08/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
MySQL 5.0.18 and earlier allows local users to bypass logging mechanisms via SQL queries that contain the NULL character, which are not properly handled by the mysql_real_query function. NOTE: this issue was originally reported for the mysql_query function, but the vendor states that since mysql_query expects a null character, this is not an issue for mysql_query.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (09/19/2006)
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Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194613
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
This issue has been fixed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 in RHSA-2006:0544.
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External Source: BID
Name: 16850
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0364
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-0752
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1015693
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30351
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19034
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://rst.void.ru/papers/advisory39.txt
External Source: XF
Name: mysql-query-log-bypass-security(24966)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-274-1
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-274-2
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2007:0083
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2006:0544
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:064
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1079
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1073
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1071
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20625
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20333
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20253
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20241
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19814
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19502
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:064
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=17667
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20060225 mysql <= 5.0.18