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Gentoo: GLSA-200708-10 Normal: MySQL DoS And Info Leak Issue

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Calendar Grey August 16, 2007
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A Denial of Service vulnerability and a table structure information leakage vulnerability were found in MySQL.

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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 ======= A Denial of Service vulnerability and a table structure information leakage vulnerability were found in MySQL.
Background ========= MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL server.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-db/mysql < 5.0.44 >= 5.0.44
========== 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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