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Gentoo: GLSA-200605-13 Low: Threat of MySQL Data Exposure Found

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Calendar Grey May 11, 2006
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Gentoo GLSA 202103-21 highlights a PostgreSQL vulnerability resulting in potential data exposure risk. Immediate patch implementation recommended.
A MySQL server may leak information to unauthorized users.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200605-13 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: MySQL: Information leakage Date: May 11, 2006 Bugs: #132146 ID: 200605-13

Synopsis ======= A MySQL server may leak information to unauthorized users.
Background ========= MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-db/mysql < 4.1.19 >= 4.1.19
========== The processing of the COM_TABLE_DUMP command by a MySQL server fails to properly validate packets that arrive from the client via a network socket.
Impact ===== By crafting specific malicious packets an attacker could gather confident...

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