CVE-2021-46665 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

An attacker can cause a MariaDB application crash due to incorrect table expectations, leading to denial of service.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2021-46665?

CVE-2021-46665 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 1 Feb 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

MariaDB through 10.5.9 allows a sql_parse.cc application crash because of incorrect used_tables expectations.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-46665?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including mariadb, mariadb-min and mysql-client. It affects 2 products.

PackageAffectedFixed in
mariadb BitnamiFrom 10.2.010.2.43, 10.3.34, 10.4.24, 10.5.15, 10.6.7, 10.7.3
mariadb-min BitnamiFrom 10.2.010.2.43, 10.3.34, 10.4.24, 10.5.15, 10.6.7, 10.7.3
mysql-client BitnamiFrom 10.2.010.2.43, 10.3.34, 10.4.24, 10.5.15, 10.6.7, 10.7.3

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Mariadb Mariadb.

How do I fix CVE-2021-46665?

Upgrade mariadb to a fixed version for your release line: 10.2.43, 10.3.34, 10.4.24 or 10.5.15.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2021-46665 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-46665 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2021-46665, AZL-8409, BIT-mariadb-2021-46665, BIT-mariadb-min-2021-46665, BIT-mysql-client-2021-46665, DEBIAN-CVE-2021-46665 and 2 more.

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