Debian 4.0 DSA-1662-1 Critical MySQL Access Bypass Exploit
debian
November 5, 2008
A symlink traversal vulnerability was discovered in MySQL, a
relational database server
Summary
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.0.32-7etch8.
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 below:
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 4.0 alias etch
- ---------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 16439441 f99df050b0b847adf7702b44e79ac877
Size/MD5 checksum: 1117 6456a5396b56431a31e2121805ef3208
Size/MD5 checksum: 269277 bc749451446872ac8c8567ed60b0eea6
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