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