Improper Access Control - CVE-2017-3641

 

Improper Access Control - CVE-2017-3641

Published: July 1, 2017 / Updated: January 29, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10290
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-3641
CWE-ID: CWE-284
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability exists due to an unspecified error in the MySQL Server within DML component. A remote privileged user can exploit the vulnerability to perform a denial of service attack.


Affected software


Amazon Linux AMI
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
Ubuntu
Slackware Linux
Fedora
Percona Server for MySQL
mariadb (Alpine package)
mysql-5.5 (Debian package)
community-mysql

How to mitigate CVE-2017-3641

Install updates from vednor's website.

mariadb (Alpine package) - update to 10.1.26-r0
mysql-5.5 (Debian package) - addressed in versions 5.5.57-0+deb7u1, 5.5.57-0+deb8u1
community-mysql - addressed in versions 5.7.19-1.fc24, 5.7.19-1.fc25, 5.7.19-1.fc26

External References

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