oss-security - Re: CVE requests; issues fixed in MySQL 5.1.52

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Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 15:27:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: coley <coley@...re.org>
Subject: Re: CVE requests; issues fixed in MySQL 5.1.52

Steve,

Can MITRE deal with this one (also, have you folks assigned this yet?).

I'm not sure how you've handled the crashes historically.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB


----- Original Message -----
> I see the following changes as fixed in MySQL 5.1.52, but cannot find
> any CVEs for them:
> 
> InnoDB Storage Engine: Security Fix: Issuing TRUNCATE TABLE and
> examining the same table's information in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA
> database at the same time could cause a crash in the debug version of
> the server. (Bug #54678)
> 
> Security Fix: The server crashed for assignment of values of types
> other
> than Geometry to items of type GeometryCollection (MultiPoint,
> MultiCurve, MultiSurface). Now the server checks the field type and
> fails with bad geometry value if it detects incorrect parameters. (Bug
> #55531)
> 
> Security Fix: EXPLAIN EXTENDED caused a server crash with some
> prepared
> statements. (Bug #54494)
> 
> Security Fix: In prepared-statement mode, EXPLAIN for a SELECT from a
> derived table caused a server crash. (Bug #54488)
> 
> There are a whole bunch of other crash-type bugs corrected in 5.1.52
> that upstream did not explicitly flag as security, which might be
> considered security-relevant as well:
> 
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-52.html
> 
> --
> Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team

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