Denial of service - CVE-2017-10276

 

Denial of service - CVE-2017-10276

Published: October 31, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU8996
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-10276
CWE-ID: CWE-284
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote low-privileged attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to an error in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL (subcomponent: Server: FTS). A remote attacker can use multiple protocols to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Server.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.

Affected software


Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Ubuntu
Fedora
Opensuse
Percona Server for MySQL
rh-mysql56-mysql (Red Hat package)
rh-mysql57-mysql (Red Hat package)
community-mysql

How to mitigate CVE-2017-10276

Install update from vendor's website.

rh-mysql56-mysql (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 5.6.38-1.el6, 5.6.38-1.el7
rh-mysql57-mysql (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 5.7.20-1.el6, 5.7.20-1.el7
community-mysql - addressed in versions 5.7.20-1.fc25, 5.7.20-1.fc26, 5.7.20-1.fc27

External References

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