Bug 708086 (CVE-2020-2574)

Summary:	[TRACKER] Use of uninitialized valued in libmysql (client.cc function run_plugin_auth)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) <whissi>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	Tracker
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/MariaDB/server/commit/4d1c1b23e1373bbd4e72f524e855f1db076d2c73#diff-5b45fa673c88c06a9651c7906364f592
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	708088, 708090, 708092
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Description Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2020-02-03 19:44:51 UTC

Vulnerability in the MySQL Client product of Oracle MySQL (component: C API). Supported versions that are affected are 5.6.46 and prior, 5.7.28 and prior and 8.0.18 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Client. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Client. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.9 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).