Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.5.26 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Server.

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues.

MySQL has been updated to 5.1.66 in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 11.10.
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.10 have been updated to MySQL 5.5.28.

In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes.

Please see the following for more information :

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-x.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-x.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2012-1515893.h tml.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The version of MySQL 5.5 installed on the remote host is earlier than 5.5.27. As such, it is reportedly affected by the following vulnerabilities:

  - An exploitable vulnerability which allows successful authenticated network attacks via multiple protocols. In some cases it can cause a Denial-of-Service or result in execution of arbitrary code.

The version of MySQL 5.5 installed on the remote host is earlier than 5.5.27 and is, therefore, affected by vulnerabilities in the following components :

  - Information Schema
  - MySQL Client
  - Protocol
  - Server
  - Server Optimizer
  - Server Replication

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
62815	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : mysql-5.1, mysql-5.5, mysql-dfsg-5.1 vulnerabilities (USN-1621-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
801168	MySQL Server 5.5.x <= 5.5.26 / 5.1.x <= 5.1.64 Multiple Unspecified Vulnerabilities	Log Correlation Engine	Database	high
6610	Oracle MySQL Server 5.5.x <= 5.5.26 / 5.1.x <= 5.1.64 Multiple Unspecified Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Database	high
62641	MySQL 5.5 < 5.5.27 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Databases	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2012-3144

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Tenable Plugins

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