The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0587 advisory.

    MySQL is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. It consists of the MySQL server daemon, mysqld,     and many client programs.

    The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-mysql56-mysql (5.6.39).
    (BZ#1533831)

    Security Fix(es):

    * mysql: sha256_password authentication DoS via long password (CVE-2018-2696)

    * mysql: Server : Partition unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2562)

    * mysql: Server: GIS unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2573)

    * mysql: Stored Procedure unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2583)

    * mysql: Server: Performance Schema unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2590)

    * mysql: Server : Partition unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2591)

    * mysql: InnoDB unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2612)

    * mysql: Server: DDL unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2622)

    * mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2640)

    * mysql: Server: Performance Schema unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2645)

    * mysql: Server: Replication unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2647)

    * mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2665)

    * mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2668)

    * mysql: sha256_password authentication DoS via hash with large rounds value (CVE-2018-2703)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    The CVE-2018-2696 and CVE-2018-2703 issues were discovered by Red Hat Product Security.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 6 / 7 : rh-mysql56-mysql (RHSA-2018:0587)

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