Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.5.19 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Server Optimizer.

A denial of service flaw was found in the way MySQL processed EXPLAIN statements for SQL queries of the form:

SELECT ... UNION ... ORDER BY (SELECT ... WHERE ...)

A remote authenticated MySQL user could use this flaw to cause mysqld deamon crash (dereference NULL pointer).

References: [1] http://secunia.com/advisories/41048/ [2] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-49.html

Upstream bug report: [3] http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=52711

Upstream changesets: [4] http://lists.mysql.com/commits/105750 [5] http://lists.mysql.com/commits/112043

Note: This issue only causes a temporary denial of service, as the mysql daemon shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will be automatically restarted after the crash.

A denial of service flaw was found in the way MySQL processed joins queries, which involved a table with unique SET column. A remote MySQL user could use this flaw to cause mysqld daemon crash.

References: [1] http://secunia.com/advisories/41048/ [2] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-49.html

Upstream bug report: [3] http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=54575

Note: This issue only causes a temporary denial of service, as the mysql daemon shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will be automatically restarted after the crash.

Buffer overflow in MySQL 5.0 through 5.0.91 and 5.1 before 5.1.47 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a COMFIELDLIST command with a long table name.

Directory traversal vulnerability in MySQL 5.0 through 5.0.91 and 5.1 before 5.1.47 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended table grants to read field definitions of arbitrary tables, and on 5.1 to read or delete content of arbitrary tables, via a .. (dot dot) in a table name.

The mynetskiprest function in sql/netserv.cc in MySQL 5.0 through 5.0.91 and 5.1 before 5.1.47 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and bandwidth consumption) by sending a large number of packets that exceed the maximum length.

The federated engine in MySQL 5.0.x before 5.0.51a, 5.1.x before 5.1.23, and 6.0.x before 6.0.4, when performing a certain SHOW TABLE STATUS query, allows remote MySQL servers to cause a denial of service (federated handler crash and daemon crash) via a response that lacks the minimum required number of columns.

MySQL 5.0.x before 5.0.51a, 5.1.x before 5.1.23, and 6.0.x before 6.0.4 does not update the DEFINER value of a view when the view is altered, which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges via a sequence of statements including a CREATE SQL SECURITY DEFINER VIEW statement and an ALTER VIEW statement.

The mysqlchangedb function in MySQL 5.0.x before 5.0.40 and 5.1.x before 5.1.18 does not restore THD::dbaccess privileges when returning from SQL SECURITY INVOKER stored routines, which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges.

MySQL 5.x before 5.0.36 allows local users to cause a denial of service (database crash) by performing informationschema table subselects and using ORDER BY to sort a single-row result, which prevents certain structure elements from being initialized and triggers a NULL dereference in the filesort function.

MySQL before 4.1.21, 5.0 before 5.0.25, and 5.1 before 5.1.12, when run on case-sensitive filesystems, allows remote authenticated users to create or access a database when the database name differs only in case from a database for which they have permissions.

MySQL 4.1 before 4.1.21 and 5.0 before 5.0.24 allows a local user to access a table through a previously created MERGE table, even after the user's privileges are revoked for the original table, which might violate intended security policy.

Format string vulnerability in time.cc in MySQL Server 4.1 before 4.1.21 and 5.0 before 1 April 2006 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a format string instead of a date as the first parameter to the dateformat function, which is later used in a formatted print call to display the error message.

DISPUTED Off-by-one buffer overflow in the Instanceoptions::completeinitialization function in instanceoptions.cc in the Instance Manager in MySQL before 5.0.23 and 5.1 before 5.1.12 might allow local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors, which triggers the overflow when the convertdirname function is called. NOTE: the vendor has disputed this issue via e-mail to CVE, saying that it is only exploitable when the user has access to the configuration file or the Instance Manager daemon. Due to intended functionality, this level of access would already allow the user to disrupt program operation, so this does not cross security boundaries and is not a vulnerability.

SQL injection vulnerability in MySQL 4.1.x before 4.1.20 and 5.0.x before 5.0.22 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via crafted multibyte encodings in character sets such as SJIS, BIG5, and GBK, which are not properly handled when the mysqlrealescape function is used to escape the input.

sqlparse.cc in MySQL 4.0.x up to 4.0.26, 4.1.x up to 4.1.18, and 5.0.x up to 5.0.20 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a COMTABLEDUMP request with an incorrect packet length, which includes portions of memory in an error message.

The checkconnection function in sqlparse.cc in MySQL 4.0.x up to 4.0.26, 4.1.x up to 4.1.18, and 5.0.x up to 5.0.20 allows remote attackers to read portions of memory via a username without a trailing null byte, which causes a buffer over-read.

Buffer overflow in the opentable function in sqlbase.cc in MySQL 5.0.x up to 5.0.20 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted COMTABLEDUMP packets with invalid length values.

MySQL 5.0.18 and earlier allows local users to bypass logging mechanisms via SQL queries that contain the NULL character, which are not properly handled by the mysqlrealquery function. NOTE: this issue was originally reported for the mysqlquery function, but the vendor states that since mysqlquery expects a null character, this is not an issue for mysqlquery.