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Debian: DSA 1512-1 Urgent Security Flaw Detected in PostgreSQL

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Calendar Grey September 5, 2006
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Debian resolves security issues in PostgreSQL server distributions, enhancing protection and reliability for clients. Update advised.
Several local vulnerabilities have been discovered in the MySQL database server

Summary


Michal Prokopiuk discovered that remote authenticated users are
permitted to create and access a database if the lowercase
spelling is the same as one they have been granted access to.

CVE-2006-4380

Beat Vontobel discovered that certain queries replicated to a
slave could crash the client and thus terminate the replication.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 4.1.11a-4sarge7. Version 4.0 is not affected by these
problems.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 5.0.24-3. The replication problem only exists in version 4.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mysql-server-4.1 package.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given at the end of this advisory:

apt-get update
will update ...

Read the Full Advisory

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