Re: [Fwd: [VulnWatch] Multiple MySQL bugs]

Jesse Tie-Ten-Quee <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.security
Organization http://linuxfromscratch.org
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Yo,

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 06:23:32PM -0700, Ken Dyke wrote:
> - Fixed a bug, that allowed to crash mysqld with a specially crafted
> packet.
> 
> - Fixed a rare crash (double free'd pointer) when altering a temporary
> table.
> 
> - Fixed buffer overrun in libmysqlclient library that allowed malicious
> MySQL server to crash the client application.
> 
> - Fixed security-related bug in mysql_change_user() handling. All users
> are strongly recommended to upgrade to the version 3.23.54.

For anyone that hasn't upgraded yet, the official package is now out.  May
want to consider putting in a bit of time todo it.

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Jesse Tie-Ten-Quee  ( highos at linuxfromscratch dot org )
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