ports/129978: [vuxml] MySQL: document CVE-2008-3963

Sat Dec 27 18:10:05 UTC 2008

>Number:         129978
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       [vuxml] MySQL: document CVE-2008-3963
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Dec 27 18:10:04 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Eygene Ryabinkin
>Release:        FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE amd64
>Organization:
Code Labs
>Environment:

System: FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE amd64

>Description:

It was found that the sequence "b''" in the client's request will
crash MySQL server.

>How-To-Repeat:

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=35658

>Fix:

The following VuXML entry should be evaluated and added:
--- vuln.xml begins here ---
  <vuln vid="57dd3c55-d410-11dd-9f32-001fc66e7203">
    <topic>mysql -- Denial of Service for authorized clients</topic>
    <affects>
      <package>
        <name>mysql-server</name>
        <range><ge>5.0</ge><lt>5.0.66</lt></range>
        <range><ge>5.1</ge><lt>5.1.26</lt></range>
        <range><ge>6.0</ge><lt>6.0.6</lt></range>
      </package>
    </affects>
    <description>
      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
        <p>Kay Roepke reports:</p>
        <blockquote
          cite="http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=35658">
          <p>Using an empty binary value leads to server crash in
          Item_bin_string::Item_bin_string</p>
          <p>How to repeat: From a mysql client do "select b'';".  The
          server crashes.</p>
        </blockquote>
      </body>
    </description>
    <references>
      <cvename>CVE-2008-3963</cvename>
      <url>http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=35658</url>
      <url>http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-es-5-0-66.html</url>
      <url>http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-26.html</url>
      <url>http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/news-6-0-6.html</url>
    </references>
    <dates>
      <discovery>28-03-2008</discovery>
      <entry>TODAY</entry>
    </dates>
  </vuln>
--- vuln.xml ends here ---

All current versions of MySQL in the FreeBSD ports tree are up-to-date
in respect to the described issue.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: