National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-7232
Original release date:12/31/2006
Last revised:04/08/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
sql_select.cc in MySQL 5.0.x before 5.0.32 and 5.1.x before 5.1.14 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) via an EXPLAIN SELECT FROM on the INFORMATION_SCHEMA table, as originally demonstrated using ORDER BY.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
6.8
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: 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 (07/25/2008)
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This issue did not affect the MySQL packages as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4 as they did not support INFORMATION_SCHEMA, introduced in MySQL version 5.
MySQL packages as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 were fixed via:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0364.html
The MySQL packages as shipped in Red Hat Application Stack v1 and v2 are based on upstream version which has the fix included.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=22413
Type: Patch Information
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0364
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31687
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30351
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2008:017
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-14.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-es-5-0-32.html
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-588-1
External Source: BID
Name: 28351
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29443