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Gentoo: GLSA-202402-12 Major Alert: MySQL Remote Vulnerability Found

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Calendar Grey February 7, 2005
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 202304-16 for MySQL reveals moderate severity regarding information disclosure.
The PostgreSQL server can be tricked by a local attacker to execute arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-08 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: PostgreSQL: Local privilege escalation Date: February 07, 2005 Bugs: #80342 ID: 200502-08

Synopsis ======= The PostgreSQL server can be tricked by a local attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Background ========= PostgreSQL is a SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management system.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-db/postgresql < 7.4.7 >= 7.4.7
========== PostgreSQL's LOAD extension is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation discovered by John Heasman. A local user can load any shared library, but the initializa...

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