Arch Linux: ASA-201505-3 Medium Severity for MariaDB Denial of Service

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201505-3
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Severity: Medium
Date    : 2015-05-08
CVE-ID  : CVE-2014-8964 CVE-2015-0499 CVE-2015-0501 CVE-2015-0505
          CVE-2015-2571
Package : mariadb
Type    : denial of service
Remote  : Yes
Link    : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE

Summary
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The package mariadb before version 10.0.18-1 is vulnerable to denial of
service.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 10.0.18-1.

# pacman -Syu "mariadb>=10.0.18-1"

The problems have been fixed upstream in version 10.0.18.

Workaround
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None.

Description
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- CVE-2014-8964 (denial of service)

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the way PCRE handled certain
malformed regular expressions. This issue could cause a crash while
parsing malicious regular expressions related to an assertion that
allows zero repeats.

- CVE-2015-0499 (denial of service)

Unspecified vulnerability allows remote authenticated users to affect
availability via unknown vectors related to Server : Federated.

- CVE-2015-0501 (denial of service)

Unspecified vulnerability allows remote authenticated users to affect
availability via unknown vectors related to Server : Compiling.

- CVE-2015-0505 (denial of service)

Unspecified vulnerability allows remote authenticated users to affect
availability via unknown vectors related to Server : DDL.

- CVE-2015-2571 (denial of service)

Unspecified vulnerability allows remote authenticated users to affect
availability via unknown vectors related to Server : Optimizer.

Impact
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A remote authenticated attacker is able to cause a server crash leading
to denial of service via malicious regular expressions and various
unspecified vectors.

References
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https://mariadb.com/docs/release-notes/community-server/old-releases/release-notes-mariadb-10-0-series/mariadb-10018-release-notes
https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-8964
https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-0499
https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-0501
https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-0505
https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-2571