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Red Hat 5: RHSA-2013:0121-01 Low: MySQL Security Update

Updated mysql packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ==================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Low: mysql security and bug fix update Advisory ID: RHSA-2013:0121-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0121.html Issue date: 2013-01-08 CVE Names: CVE-2012-4452 ==================================================================== 1. Summary: Updated mysql packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64 3. Description: MySQL is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. It consists of the MySQL server daemon (mysqld) and many client programs and libraries. It was found that the fix for the CVE-2009-4030 issue, a flaw in the way MySQL checked the paths used as arguments for the DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY directives when the "datadir" option was configured with a relative path, was incorrectly removed when the mysql packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 were updated to version 5.0.95 via RHSA-2012:0127. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to bypass the restriction preventing the use of subdirectories of the MySQL data directory beingused as DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY paths. This update re-applies the fix for CVE-2009-4030. (CVE-2012-4452) Note: If the use of the DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY directives were disabled as described in RHSA-2010:0109 (by adding "symbolic-links=0" to the "[mysqld]" section of the "my.cnf" configuration file), users were not vulnerable to this issue. This issue was discovered by Karel Volný of the Red Hat Quality Engineering team. This update also fixes the following bugs: * Prior to this update, the log file path in the logrotate script did not behave as expected. As a consequence, the logrotate function failed to rotate the "/var/log/mysqld.log" file. This update modifies the logrotate script to allow rotating the mysqld.log file. (BZ#647223) * Prior to this update, the mysqld daemon could fail when using the EXPLAIN flag in prepared statement mode. This update modifies the underlying code to handle the EXPLAIN flag as expected. (BZ#654000) * Prior to this update, the mysqld init script could wrongly report that mysql server startup failed when the server was actually started. This update modifies the init script to report the status of the mysqld server as expected. (BZ#703476) * Prior to this update, the "--enable-profiling" option was by default disabled. This update enables the profiling feature. (BZ#806365) All MySQL users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. After installing this update, the MySQL server daemon (mysqld) will be restarted automatically. 4. Solution: Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258 5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 526850 - MySQL 5.0.77 crashes on comparison of date & datetime types to NAME_CONST() 528512 - MySQL memoryDoS 543730 - mysqld segfaults during SHOW CREATE TABLE 548685 - Extra characters appear in BLOB after mysqldump/import 654000 - Mysql bug 54488 - crash when using explain and prepared statements with subqueries 675906 - Restore / import of mysqldump fails on "Unknown command '\'" 806365 - mysql-server-5.0.95-1.el5_7.1 has Profiling disabled by default 860808 - CVE-2012-4452 mysql: regression of CVE-2009-4030 6. Package List: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client): Source: i386: mysql-5.0.95-3.el5.i386.rpm mysql-debuginfo-5.0.95-3.el5.i386.rpm x86_64: mysql-5.0.95-3.el5.i386.rpm mysql-5.0.95-3.el5.x86_64.rpm mysql-debuginfo-5.0.95-3.el5.i386.rpm mysql-debuginfo-5.0.95-3.el5.x86_64.rpm RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client): Source: i386: mysql-bench-5.0.95-3.el5.i386.rpm mysql-debuginfo-5.0.95-3.el5.i386.rpm mysql-devel-5.0.95-3.el5.i386.rpm mysql-server-5.0.95-3.el5.i386.rpm mysql-test-5.0.95-3.el5.i386.rpm x86_64: mysql-bench-5.0.95-3.el5.x86_64.rpm mysql-debuginfo-5.0.95-3.el5.i386.rpm mysql-debuginfo-5.0.95-3.el5.x86_64.rpm mysql-devel-5.0.95-3.el5.i386.rpm mysql-devel-5.0.95-3.el5.x86_64.rpm mysql-server-5.0.95-3.el5.x86_64.rpm mysql-test-5.0.95-3.el5.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5server): Source: i386: mysql-5.0.95-3.el5.i386.rpm mysql-bench-5.0.95-3.el5.i386.rpm mysql-debuginfo-5.0.95-3.el5.i386.rpm mysql-devel-5.0.95-3.el5.i386.rpm mysql-server-5.0.95-3.el5.i386.rpm mysql-test-5.0.95-3.el5.i386.rpm ia64: mysql-5.0.95-3.el5.i386.rpm mysql-5.0.95-3.el5.ia64.rpm mysql-bench-5.0.95-3.el5.ia64.rpm mysql-debuginfo-5.0.95-3.el5.i386.rpm mysql-debuginfo-5.0.95-3.el5.ia64.rpm mysql-devel-5.0.95-3.el5.ia64.rpm mysql-server-5.0.95-3.el5.ia64.rpm mysql-test-5.0.95-3.el5.ia64.rpm ppc: mysql-5.0.95-3.el5.ppc.rpm mysql-5.0.95-3.el5.ppc64.rpm mysql-bench-5.0.95-3.el5.ppc.rpm mysql-debuginfo-5.0.95-3.el5.ppc.rpm mysql-debuginfo-5.0.95-3.el5.ppc64.rpm mysql-devel-5.0.95-3.el5.ppc.rpm mysql-devel-5.0.95-3.el5.ppc64.rpm mysql-server-5.0.95-3.el5.ppc.rpm mysql-server-5.0.95-3.el5.ppc64.rpm mysql-test-5.0.95-3.el5.ppc.rpm s390x: mysql-5.0.95-3.el5.s390.rpm mysql-5.0.95-3.el5.s390x.rpm mysql-bench-5.0.95-3.el5.s390x.rpm mysql-debuginfo-5.0.95-3.el5.s390.rpm mysql-debuginfo-5.0.95-3.el5.s390x.rpm mysql-devel-5.0.95-3.el5.s390.rpm mysql-devel-5.0.95-3.el5.s390x.rpm mysql-server-5.0.95-3.el5.s390x.rpm mysql-test-5.0.95-3.el5.s390x.rpm x86_64: mysql-5.0.95-3.el5.i386.rpm mysql-5.0.95-3.el5.x86_64.rpm mysql-bench-5.0.95-3.el5.x86_64.rpm mysql-debuginfo-5.0.95-3.el5.i386.rpm mysql-debuginfo-5.0.95-3.el5.x86_64.rpm mysql-devel-5.0.95-3.el5.i386.rpm mysql-devel-5.0.95-3.el5.x86_64.rpm mysql-server-5.0.95-3.el5.x86_64.rpm mysql-test-5.0.95-3.el5.x86_64.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package 7. References: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4452 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0127.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0109.html 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ Copyright 2013 RedHat, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFQ68JPXlSAg2UNWIIRAsUMAJ0ZMiyYZBgeZ5L5dL+zPijQR9OMTgCdGz7b 5sT0eF5SCGyLA3SQngEn2NU=aPsf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Enterprise-watch-list mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Enhanced MySQL components resolve a specific concern and several faults within Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Minimal disruption recommended.. Red Hat MySQL Update, MySQL Security Fix, Linux Update, Security Advisory. . Severity: Low. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Jan 08, 2013 •Low Red Hat