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Gentoo: GLSA-200410-22 High Severity MySQL Privilege Escalation DoS

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Several vulnerabilities including privilege abuse, Denial of Service, and potentially remote arbitrary code execution have been discovered in MySQL

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200410-22 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: MySQL: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: October 24, 2004 Bugs: #67062 ID: 200410-22

Synopsis ======= Several vulnerabilities including privilege abuse, Denial of Service, and potentially remote arbitrary code execution have been discovered in MySQL.
Background ========= MySQL is a popular open-source, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-db/mysql < 4.0.21 >= 4.0.21
========== The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in MySQL:
Oleksandr Byelkin found that ALTER TABLE ... RENAME checks CR...

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