Date:         Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:28:35 -0500
Reply-To:     Troy Dawson 
Sender:       Security Errata for Scientific Linux
              
From:         Troy Dawson 
Subject:      Security ERRATA Moderate: mysql on SL5.x i386/x86_64
Comments: To: "scientific-linux-errata@fnal.gov"
          

Synopsis:	Moderate: mysql security and bug fix update
Issue date:	2009-09-02
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-2079 CVE-2008-3963 CVE-2008-4456
                   CVE-2009-2446

CVE-2008-2079 mysql: privilege escalation via DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY 
directives
CVE-2008-3963 MySQL: Using an empty binary value leads to server crash
CVE-2008-4456 mysql: mysql command line client XSS flaw
CVE-2008-3963 MySQL: Using an empty binary value leads to server crash
CVE-2009-2446 MySQL: Format string vulnerability by manipulation with 
database instances (crash)

MySQL did not correctly check directories used as arguments for the DATA
DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY directives. Using this flaw, an 
authenticated attacker could elevate their access privileges to tables 
created by other database users. Note: This attack does not work on 
existing tables. An attacker can only elevate their access to another 
user's tables as the tables are created. As well, the names of these 
created tables need to be predicted correctly for this attack to 
succeed. (CVE-2008-2079)

A flaw was found in the way MySQL handles an empty bit-string literal. A
remote, authenticated attacker could crash the MySQL server daemon 
(mysqld) if they used an empty bit-string literal in an SQL statement. 
This issue only caused a temporary denial of service, as the MySQL 
daemon was automatically restarted after the crash. (CVE-2008-3963)

An insufficient HTML entities quoting flaw was found in the mysql 
command line client's HTML output mode. If an attacker was able to 
inject arbitrary HTML tags into data stored in a MySQL database, which 
was later retrieved using the mysql command line client and its HTML 
output mode, they could perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack 
against victims viewing the HTML output in a web browser. (CVE-2008-4456)

Multiple format string flaws were found in the way the MySQL server logs
user commands when creating and deleting databases. A remote, 
authenticated attacker with permissions to CREATE and DROP databases 
could use these flaws to formulate a specifically-crafted SQL command 
that would cause a temporary denial of service (open connections to 
mysqld are terminated). (CVE-2009-2446)

Note: To exploit the CVE-2009-2446 flaws, the general query log (the 
mysqld "--log" command line option or the "log" option in "/etc/my.cnf") 
must be enabled. This logging is not enabled by default.

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

SL 5.x

     SRPMS:
mysql-5.0.77-3.el5.src.rpm
     i386:
mysql-5.0.77-3.el5.i386.rpm
mysql-bench-5.0.77-3.el5.i386.rpm
mysql-connector-odbc-3.51.26r1127-1.el5.i386.rpm
mysql-devel-5.0.77-3.el5.i386.rpm
mysql-server-5.0.77-3.el5.i386.rpm
mysql-test-5.0.77-3.el5.i386.rpm
     x86_64:
mysql-5.0.77-3.el5.i386.rpm
mysql-5.0.77-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
mysql-bench-5.0.77-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
mysql-connector-odbc-3.51.26r1127-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
mysql-devel-5.0.77-3.el5.i386.rpm
mysql-devel-5.0.77-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
mysql-server-5.0.77-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
mysql-test-5.0.77-3.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson