Debian: DSA 1092-1 Serious: MySQL 4.1 SQL Injection Remote Threat
debian
June 8, 2006
Josh Berkus and Tom Lane discovered that MySQL 4.1, a popular SQL database, incorrectly parses astring escaped with mysql_real_escape() which could lead to SQL injection
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Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.1.11a-4sarge4.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 5.0.21-4.
Version 4.0 in the stable distribution (sarge) is also not affected by
this problem.
We recommend that you upgrade your mysql packages.
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 the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
Size/MD5 checksum: 1021 af71d3e6da11441dfd8ed93c20ca8729
Size/MD5 checksum: 167558 438fd6709d74cb614901d0ea9a965745
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