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An update for rh-mysql56-mysql is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-mysql56-mysql (5.6.39). (BZ#1533831)

Security Fix(es):

• mysql: sha256_password authentication DoS via long password (CVE-2018-2696)
• mysql: Server : Partition unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2562)
• mysql: Server: GIS unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2573)
• mysql: Stored Procedure unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2583)
• mysql: Server: Performance Schema unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2590)
• mysql: Server : Partition unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2591)
• mysql: InnoDB unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2612)
• mysql: Server: DDL unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2622)
• mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2640)
• mysql: Server: Performance Schema unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2645)
• mysql: Server: Replication unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2647)
• mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2665)
• mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018) (CVE-2018-2668)
• mysql: sha256_password authentication DoS via hash with large rounds value (CVE-2018-2703)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

The CVE-2018-2696 and CVE-2018-2703 issues were discovered by Red Hat Product Security.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing this update, the MySQL server daemon (mysqld) will be restarted automatically.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1509475 - CVE-2018-2696 mysql: sha256_password authentication DoS via long password
• BZ - 1534139 - CVE-2018-2703 mysql: sha256_password authentication DoS via hash with large rounds value
• BZ - 1535484 - CVE-2018-2562 mysql: Server : Partition unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018)
• BZ - 1535487 - CVE-2018-2573 mysql: Server: GIS unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018)
• BZ - 1535490 - CVE-2018-2583 mysql: Stored Procedure unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018)
• BZ - 1535492 - CVE-2018-2590 mysql: Server: Performance Schema unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018)
• BZ - 1535493 - CVE-2018-2591 mysql: Server : Partition unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018)
• BZ - 1535497 - CVE-2018-2612 mysql: InnoDB unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018)
• BZ - 1535499 - CVE-2018-2622 mysql: Server: DDL unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018)
• BZ - 1535500 - CVE-2018-2640 mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018)
• BZ - 1535501 - CVE-2018-2645 mysql: Server: Performance Schema unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018)
• BZ - 1535503 - CVE-2018-2647 mysql: Server: Replication unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018)
• BZ - 1535504 - CVE-2018-2665 mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018)
• BZ - 1535506 - CVE-2018-2668 mysql: Server: Optimizer unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018)

CVEs

• CVE-2018-2562
• CVE-2018-2573
• CVE-2018-2583
• CVE-2018-2590
• CVE-2018-2591
• CVE-2018-2612
• CVE-2018-2622
• CVE-2018-2640
• CVE-2018-2645
• CVE-2018-2647
• CVE-2018-2665
• CVE-2018-2668
• CVE-2018-2696
• CVE-2018-2703

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2018-3236628.html#AppendixMSQL
• https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-39.html