The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:0186 advisory.

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

    This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the MySQL database server.
    Information about these flaws can be found on the Oracle Critical Patch     Update Advisory page, listed in the References section. (CVE-2013-5807,     CVE-2013-5891, CVE-2014-0386, CVE-2014-0393, CVE-2014-0401, CVE-2014-0402,     CVE-2014-0412, CVE-2014-0420, CVE-2014-0437, CVE-2013-3839, CVE-2013-5908)

    A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the MySQL command line client     tool (mysql) processed excessively long version strings. If a user     connected to a malicious MySQL server via the mysql client, the server     could use this flaw to crash the mysql client or, potentially, execute     arbitrary code as the user running the mysql client. (CVE-2014-0001)

    The CVE-2014-0001 issue was discovered by Garth Mollett of the Red Hat     Security Response Team.

    These updated packages upgrade MySQL to version 5.5.36. Refer to the MySQL     Release Notes listed in the References section for a complete list     of changes.

    All MySQL users should upgrade to these updated packages, which correct     these issues. After installing this update, the MySQL server daemon     (mysqld) will be restarted automatically.

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 5 : mysql55-mysql (RHSA-2014:0186)

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