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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200708-10
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: MySQL: Denial of Service and information leakage
Date: August 16, 2007
Bugs: #185333
ID: 200708-10
Synopsis
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A Denial of Service vulnerability and a table structure information
leakage vulnerability were found in MySQL.
Background
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MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL server.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 dev-db/mysql < 5.0.44 >= 5.0.44
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Dormando reported a vulnerability within the handling of password
packets in the connection protocol (CVE-2007-3780). Andrei Elkin also
found that the "CREATE TABL...
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