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Debian: DSA 784-1 Moderate: MySQL Insecure File Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey August 24, 2005
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Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.1.12 for mysql-dfsg-4.1 and 5.0.11beta-3 of mysql-dfsg-5.0.

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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 1021 13739557cb2a080e28e4d8b8d3c74b3c
Size/MD5 checksum: 162785 ebabe63abfbe2c9cf4a56fb9515d99dd
Size/MD5 checksum: 15771855 3c0582606a8903e758c2014c2481c7c3

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