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Remote hole, DoS in MySQL

Posted by michael on from the whoops dept.

Wee writes "I just saw two pretty nasty vulnerabilities in MySQL were announced today by a German company called e-matters. From the annoucenment: "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." Version 3.23.54 fixes the issues in 3.x. I couldn't find a patched version for the 4.0 beta."

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  1. Re:I'm switching to postgres by REBloomfield · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because I'm an evil Windows Admin who is very happy with SQL Server, warts n all.
    When I have used databases on Linux, they've been Oracle, and that was purely to do a comparison to SQL Server. Horrible interface... eww... worse than DB2....
    And watch the flames roll in... :)