Denial of service - CVE-2017-10378

 

Denial of service - CVE-2017-10378

Published: October 31, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU9009
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-2017-10378
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: Optimizer). 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
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
SUSE Linux
Ubuntu
Slackware Linux
Fedora
Opensuse
mysql-5.5 (Debian package)
mariadb (Alpine package)
rh-mysql56-mysql (Red Hat package)
rh-mysql57-mysql (Red Hat package)
community-mysql
Percona Server for MySQL

How to mitigate CVE-2017-10378

Install update from vendor's website.

mysql-5.5 (Debian package) - addressed in versions 5.5.58-0+deb7u1, 5.5.58-0+deb8u1
mariadb (Alpine package) - update to 10.1.32-r0
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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