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USN32-1 : mysql-dfsg vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
mysql-dfsg vulnerabilities

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

These remote packages are missing security patches :
- libmysqlclient-dev
- libmysqlclient12
- mysql-client
- mysql-common
- mysql-server

Description :

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the MySQL database
server.

Lukasz Wojtow discovered a potential buffer overflow in the function
mysql_real_connect(). A malicious name server could send specially
crafted DNS packages which might result in execution of arbitrary code
with the database server's rights. However, it is believed that
this bug cannot be exploited with the C Standard library (glibc) that
Ubuntu uses. (CVE-2004-0836).

Dean Ellis noticed a flaw that permits an authorized MySQL user to
cause a denial of service (crash or hang) via concurrent execution of
certain statements (ALTER TABLE ... UNION=, FLUSH TABLES) on tables of
type MERGE (CVE-2004-0837)

Some query strings containing a double quote (like MATCH ... AGAINST
(' some " query' IN BOOLEAN MODE) ) that did not have a matching
closing double quote caused a denial of service (server crash). Again,
this is only exploitable by authorized mysql users. (CVE-2004-0956)

If a user was granted rights to a database with a name
[...]

Solution :

Upgrade to :
- libmysqlclient-dev-4.0.20-2ubuntu1.1 (Ubuntu 4.10)
- libmysqlclient12-4.0.20-2ubuntu1.1 (Ubuntu 4.10)
- mysql-client-4.0.20-2ubuntu1.1 (Ubuntu 4.10)
- mysql-common-4.0.20-2ubuntu1.1 (Ubuntu 4.10)
- mysql-server-4.0.20-2ubuntu1.1 (Ubuntu 4.10)

Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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