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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-1420 Detail

Current 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.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (07/25/2008)

This issue did not affect mysql packages as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4. Issue was addressed in mysql packages as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0364.html

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=24630 CVE, MITRE
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-es-5-0-36.html CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24483 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24609 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25196 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25389 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25946 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/30351 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200705-11.xml CVE, MITRE
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2413 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:139 CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0364.html CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://www.sec-consult.com/284.html CVE, MITRE Exploit 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/462339/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22900 CVE, MITRE Exploit  Patch 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017746 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-440-1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0908 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1127 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9530 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-1420
NVD Published Date:
03/12/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE