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Ubuntu: USN-4716-1 (CVE-2021-2011): MySQL vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4716-1 (CVE-2021-2011): MySQL vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
01/20/2021
Created
02/03/2021
Added
02/02/2021
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

Vulnerability in the MySQL Client product of Oracle MySQL (component: C API). Supported versions that are affected are 5.7.32 and prior and 8.0.22 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 3.1 Base Score 5.9 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-mysql-server-5-7
  • ubuntu-upgrade-mysql-server-8-0

References

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