CVE-2007-1420

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2007-03-09
CWE:
CWE-476
Bugzilla:
232603: CVE-2007-1420 Single MySQL worker can be crashed (NULL deref) with certain SELECT statements

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

MySQL 5.x before 5.0.36 allows local users to cause a denial of service (database crash) by performing information_schema table subselects and using ORDER BY to sort a single-row result, which prevents certain structure elements from being initialized and triggers a NULL dereference in the filesort function.

Find out more about CVE-2007-1420 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect mysql packages as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4.

Issue was addressed in mysql packages as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 via:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0364.html

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (mysql) RHSA-2008:0364 2008-05-20

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