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Incompletely fixed MySQL bug

Bug #1083377 reported by Stewart Smith
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​ MySQL Server
Unknown
Unknown
​ Percona Server moved to https://jira.percona.com/projects/PS
Fix Released
Critical
Vlad Lesin
Percona Server moved to https://jira.percona.com/projects/PS 5.5.28-29.3
​ 5.1
Fix Released
Critical
Vlad Lesin
Percona Server moved to https://jira.percona.com/projects/PS 5.1.66-14.2
​ 5.5
Fix Released
Critical
Vlad Lesin
Percona Server moved to https://jira.percona.com/projects/PS 5.5.28-29.3
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Bug Description

MySQL bug 13889741 (which is CVE-2012-3163) was, apparently, not completely fixed. A very similar test case finds new, much more dangerous, buffer overflows in acl_get() and check_grant_db_routine(). They allow to overwrite the buffer by an arbitrary number of bytes, not just by one as in bug 13889741. One can trivially put a shellcode there.

To exploit this one needs a valid low-privileged user account in the MariaDB (or MySQL) server.

This new vulnerability is registered as CVE-2012-5579

https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3884
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=67685

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.3/revision/2643.153.26

See original description

Related branches

lp:~vlad-lesin/percona-server/5.5-bug1083377
Stewart Smith (community): Approve
Sergei Glushchenko (community): Approve (g2)
Diff: 79 lines (+28/-4)
3 files modified
Percona-Server/mysql-test/r/information_schema.result (+4/-0)
Percona-Server/mysql-test/t/information_schema.test (+8/-0)
Percona-Server/sql/sql_acl.cc (+16/-4)
lp:~vlad-lesin/percona-server/5.1-bug1083377-gca
Stewart Smith (community): Approve
Sergei Glushchenko (community): Approve (g2)
Diff: 77 lines (+28/-4)
3 files modified
Percona-Server/mysql-test/r/information_schema.result (+4/-0)
Percona-Server/mysql-test/t/information_schema.test (+8/-0)
Percona-Server/sql/sql_acl.cc (+16/-4)
Vlad Lesin (vlad-lesin)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Vadim Tkachenko (vadim-tk) wrote :

Stewart,

I would like we decide what do we do with this bug fix.

Stewart Smith (stewart)
Changed in percona-server:
assignee: nobody → Vlad Lesin (vlad-lesin)
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Laurynas Biveinis (laurynas-biveinis)
information type: Private Security → Public Security
Laurynas Biveinis (laurynas-biveinis)
tags: added: upstream
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Laurynas Biveinis (laurynas-biveinis) wrote :

Upstream fix at

5.1$ bzr log -r 3853.1.1
------------------------------------------------------------
revno: 3853.1.1
author: <email address hidden>
committer: Akhil Mohan <email address hidden>
branch nick: mysql-5.1.67-release
timestamp: Thu 2012-11-29 19:34:47 +0100
message:
  applying patch for BUG15912213

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Laurynas Biveinis (laurynas-biveinis) wrote :

The upstream fix still allows a buffer overflow by two bytes, see bug 1186748.

Revision history for this message
Shahriyar Rzayev (rzayev-sehriyar) wrote :

Percona now uses JIRA for bug reports so this bug report is migrated to: https://jira.percona.com/browse/PS-350

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