Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-144
Advisory Release Date: 2012-12-06 21:24 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 17:19 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the user permission checking code in MySQL. An authenticated database user could use this flaw to crash the mysqld daemon or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the mysqld daemon. (CVE-2012-5611)
Affected Packages:
mysql55
Issue Correction:
Run yum update mysql55 to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
mysql55-embedded-devel-5.5.28-2.26.amzn1.i686
mysql55-server-5.5.28-2.26.amzn1.i686
mysql55-bench-5.5.28-2.26.amzn1.i686
mysql55-libs-5.5.28-2.26.amzn1.i686
mysql55-test-5.5.28-2.26.amzn1.i686
mysql55-common-5.5.28-2.26.amzn1.i686
mysql55-embedded-5.5.28-2.26.amzn1.i686
mysql55-debuginfo-5.5.28-2.26.amzn1.i686
mysql55-devel-5.5.28-2.26.amzn1.i686
mysql55-5.5.28-2.26.amzn1.i686
src:
mysql55-5.5.28-2.26.amzn1.src
x86_64:
mysql55-common-5.5.28-2.26.amzn1.x86_64
mysql55-embedded-devel-5.5.28-2.26.amzn1.x86_64
mysql55-devel-5.5.28-2.26.amzn1.x86_64
mysql55-libs-5.5.28-2.26.amzn1.x86_64
mysql55-debuginfo-5.5.28-2.26.amzn1.x86_64
mysql55-5.5.28-2.26.amzn1.x86_64
mysql55-server-5.5.28-2.26.amzn1.x86_64
mysql55-test-5.5.28-2.26.amzn1.x86_64
mysql55-bench-5.5.28-2.26.amzn1.x86_64
mysql55-embedded-5.5.28-2.26.amzn1.x86_64