National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3469

Overview

Format string vulnerability in time.cc in MySQL Server 4.1 before 4.1.21 and 5.0 before 1 April 2006 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a format string instead of a date as the first parameter to the date_format function, which is later used in a formatted print call to display the error message.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (07/25/2008)

This issue was addressed in mysql packages as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0768.html This issue did not affect mysql packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 5, and Red Hat Application Stack v1 and v2.

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Vulnerable software and versions

Configuration 1

OR

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:4.1.11

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:4.1.12

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:4.1.12a

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:4.1.13

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:4.1.13a

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:4.1.14

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:4.1.14a

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:4.1.15

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:4.1.15a

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:4.1.16

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:4.1.18

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:4.1.19

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:4.1.20

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:4.1.6

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:4.1.7

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:4.1.8

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:4.1.8a

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:4.1.9

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.10

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.10a

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.11

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.12

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.13

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.15

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.15a

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.16

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.16a

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.17

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.17a

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.18

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.19

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.1a

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.3a

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.4a

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.5.0.21

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.6

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.9

* Denotes Vulnerable Software

* Changes related to vulnerability configurations