Ubuntu 5.10 : mysql-dfsg-4.1 vulnerability (USN-321-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27899

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Jean-David Maillefer discovered a format string bug in the date_format() function's error reporting. By calling the function with invalid arguments, an authenticated user could exploit this to crash the server.

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27899

File Name: ubuntu_USN-321-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmysqlclient14, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmysqlclient14-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-client-4.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-common-4.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-server-4.1, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 7/21/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/27/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-3469

USN: 321-1