Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-93
Advisory Release Date: 2012-07-05 16:07 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 16:23 Pacific
sql/password.c in Oracle MySQL 5.1.x before 5.1.63, 5.5.x before 5.5.24, and 5.6.x before 5.6.6, and MariaDB 5.1.x before 5.1.62, 5.2.x before 5.2.12, 5.3.x before 5.3.6, and 5.5.x before 5.5.23, when running in certain environments with certain implementations of the memcmp function, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by repeatedly authenticating with the same incorrect password, which eventually causes a token comparison to succeed due to an improperly-checked return value.
Affected Packages:
mysql55
Issue Correction:
Run yum update mysql55 to update your system.
i686:
mysql55-embedded-devel-5.5.24-1.24.amzn1.i686
mysql55-debuginfo-5.5.24-1.24.amzn1.i686
mysql55-server-5.5.24-1.24.amzn1.i686
mysql55-common-5.5.24-1.24.amzn1.i686
mysql55-test-5.5.24-1.24.amzn1.i686
mysql55-embedded-5.5.24-1.24.amzn1.i686
mysql55-bench-5.5.24-1.24.amzn1.i686
mysql55-libs-5.5.24-1.24.amzn1.i686
mysql55-5.5.24-1.24.amzn1.i686
mysql55-devel-5.5.24-1.24.amzn1.i686
src:
mysql55-5.5.24-1.24.amzn1.src
x86_64:
mysql55-libs-5.5.24-1.24.amzn1.x86_64
mysql55-test-5.5.24-1.24.amzn1.x86_64
mysql55-embedded-devel-5.5.24-1.24.amzn1.x86_64
mysql55-debuginfo-5.5.24-1.24.amzn1.x86_64
mysql55-bench-5.5.24-1.24.amzn1.x86_64
mysql55-common-5.5.24-1.24.amzn1.x86_64
mysql55-5.5.24-1.24.amzn1.x86_64
mysql55-devel-5.5.24-1.24.amzn1.x86_64
mysql55-server-5.5.24-1.24.amzn1.x86_64
mysql55-embedded-5.5.24-1.24.amzn1.x86_64