65851 : MySQL ALTER DATABASE #mysql50# Prefix Handling DoS
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Disclosure Date
2010-06-02

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2010-2008" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : MySQL before 5.1.48 allows remote authenticated users with alter database privileges to cause a denial of service (server crash and database loss) via an ALTER DATABASE command with a #mysql50# string followed by a . (dot), .. (dot dot), ../ (dot dot slash) or similar sequence, and an UPGRADE DATA DIRECTORY NAME command, which causes MySQL to move certain directories to the server data directory.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service, Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Availability
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: Vendor Verified
OSVDB: Authentication Required

Solution

Upgrade to version 5.1.48 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Security Tracker: 1024160
Exploit Database: 14537
CVE ID: 2010-2008 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 40333 40518 40762 47082 47402
Bugtraq ID: 41198
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=53804
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-48.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044546.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201201-02.xml
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1397-1/
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1017-1

Tools & Filters

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Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 3.5
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2010-07-14 | Disagree?

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