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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-07 Critical: PostgreSQL Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey November 18, 2007
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A vulnerability affecting MySQL has been discovered, necessitating an update for Gentoo users to address potential security threats.
A Denial of Service vulnerability was found in MySQL.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200711-25
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: MySQL: Denial of Service
      Date: November 18, 2007
      Bugs: #198988
        ID: 200711-25


Synopsis
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A Denial of Service vulnerability was 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-r2                        >= 5.0.44-r2

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Joe Gallo and Artem Russakovskii reported an error in the
convert_search_mode_to_innobase() function in ha_innodb.cc in the
InnoDB engine that is leading to a failed assertion when handling
CONTAI...
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