CVE-2007-1420 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=24630 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-es-5-0-36.html http://secunia.com/advisories/24483 http://secunia.com/advisories/24609 http://secunia.com/advisories/25196 http://secunia.com/advisories/25389 http://secunia.com/advisories/25946 http://secunia.com/advisories/30351 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200705-11.xml http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2413 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:139 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0364.html http://www.sec-consult.com/284.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/462339/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22900 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017746 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-440-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0908 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1127 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9530