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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:59:26 +0100
From: Sergei Golubchik <serg@...ql.com>
To: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, security@...ql.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request - MySQL - 5.0.88
Hi, Jan!
On Nov 21, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Hi Josh, Steve, vendors,
>
> MySQL upstream has released latest 5.0.88 version of their Community
> Server, fixing one security issue:
...
> While the other two (three issues) looks too to be security relevant:
>
> * Error handling was missing for SELECT statements containing
> subqueries in the WHERE clause and that assigned a SELECT
> result to a user variable. The server could crash as a result.
> (Bug#48291: http://bugs.mysql.com/48291)
>
> This looks to be from adjacent network exploitable mysqld DoS.
Yes.
> * If the first argument to GeomFromWKB() function was a geometry
> value, the function just returned its value. However, it
> failed to preserve the argument's null_value flag, which
> caused an unexpected NULL value to be returned to the caller,
> resulting in a server crash.
> (Bug#47780: http://bugs.mysql.com/47780)
>
> Same case as the above
Yes.
> * Failure to treat BIT values as unsigned could lead to
> unpredictable results.
> (Bug#42803: http://bugs.mysql.com/42803)
>
> Also this one seems to be security related - upstream bug speaks about
> invalid memory access and didn't check the code if this could lead to
> heap overflow once the comparison fails.
No, looks safe. It reads one byte and thinks it's a bool:
class Field_num ... { ...
bool unsigned_flag;
while it's somewhere in the middle of a pointer:
class Field_bit ... { ...
uchar *bit_ptr;
The worst that can happen - MySQL could think the value is signed (BIT
values are always unsigned) and during the optimization phase won't
notice that the condition like "unsigned_value > negative_number" is
always true. Not a big deal.
Regards / Mit vielen Grüßen,
Sergei
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