86821 2002-12-16  15:26  /50 rader/ Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
Importerad: 2002-12-16  15:26  av Brevbäraren
Extern mottagare: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Mottagare: Bugtraq (import) <2757>
Ärende: GLSA: mysql
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-2
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PACKAGE : mysql
SUMMARY : remote DOS and arbitrary code execution
DATE    : 2002-12-15 12:12 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote

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- From e-matters advisory:

"We have discovered two flaws within the MySQL server that can be
used by any MySQL user to crash the server. Furthermore one of the
flaws can be used to bypass the MySQL password check or to execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running mysqld.
   
We have also discovered an arbitrary size heap overflow within the
mysql client library and another vulnerability that allows to write
'\0' to any memory address. Both flaws could allow DOS attacks
against or arbitrary code execution within anything linked against
libmysqlclient."

Read the full advisory at
http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/042002.html

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-misc/freeswan-3.23.53 and earlier update their systems as follows:

emerge rsync
emerge mysql
emerge clean

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aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz
woodchip@gentoo.org
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86824 2002-12-16  15:38  /53 rader/ Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
Importerad: 2002-12-16  15:38  av Brevbäraren
Extern mottagare: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Mottagare: Bugtraq (import) <2760>
Ärende: GLSA: mysql
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-2.1
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PACKAGE : mysql
SUMMARY : remote DOS and arbitrary code execution
DATE    : 2002-12-15 12:12 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote

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The original advisory sent by me contained a typo (net-misc/freeswan
should have been dev-db/mysql). This re-issue has the correct text.

- From e-matters advisory:

"We have discovered two flaws within the MySQL server that can be
used by any MySQL user to crash the server. Furthermore one of the
flaws can be used to bypass the MySQL password check or to execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running mysqld.
   
We have also discovered an arbitrary size heap overflow within the
mysql client library and another vulnerability that allows to write
'\0' to any memory address. Both flaws could allow DOS attacks
against or arbitrary code execution within anything linked against
libmysqlclient."

Read the full advisory at
http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/042002.html

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
dev-db/mysql-3.23.53 and earlier update their systems as follows:

emerge rsync
emerge mysql
emerge clean

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aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz
woodchip@gentoo.org
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