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Red Hat: RHSA-2001:003-07 Moderate: MySQL Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey January 23, 2001
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat advises users on a crucial MySQL patch addressing buffer overflow issues, ensuring system integrity and security.
The MySQL database that shipped with Red Hat Linux 7 and the updates for ithave been reported by the MySQL authors to have security problems.

Solution

Because of dependencies, the packages must be installed as a group.

After downloading all RPMs needed for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Uvh mysql*

Note that in rare cases, the shutdown of the old database fails after upgrade - to ensure a smooth upgrade, shut the database down before upgrading:

service mysqld stop

5. Bug IDs fixed ( for more info):

24381 - Buffer Overflow in MySQL <3.23.31 22649 - encrypt() function not supported 24589 - mysql logrotate script returns an error, log doesn't get rotated

6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 7.0:

SRPMS:


alpha:




i386:






7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name 1d13ef56b8898abf8841510db3c0be49 7.0/SRPMS/mysql-3.23.32-1.7.src.rpm f538d811ec522c86ab890657e859a4f4 7.0/SRPMS/mysqlclient9-3.23.22-3.src.rpm c838e7245d2ca45357e556317873fcca 7.0/alpha/mysql-3.23.32-1.7.alpha.rpm 5a5049769bd785e800fe629c7875dec8 7.0/alpha/mysql-devel-3.23.32-1.7.alpha.rpm 5cb73bca58042bb7604361c224878f08 7.0/alpha/mysql-server-3.23.32-1.7.alpha.rpm e5f65a87cb3e019456d842d565693476 7.0/alpha/mysqlclient9-3.23.22-3.alpha.rpm d8097aa8c188b386803267446286a01a 7.0/i386/mysql-3.23.32-1.7.i386.rpm 528a72c7b017458f6cad65978b93305e 7.0/i386/mysql-devel-3.23.32-1.7.i386.rpm 8ec7d8b903e1608de50f49196837e40c 7.0/i386/mysql-server-3.23.32-1.7.i386.rpm 38a96abb2b68fa9354f715da47767386 7.0/i386/mysqlclient9-3.23.22-3.i386.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key is available at:

You can verify each package with the following command: rpm --checksig

If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command: rpm --checksig --nogpg

Summary

References

Copyright(c) 2000, 2001 Red Hat, Inc. `

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2001:003-07
Issue date: 2001-01-18
Updated on: 2001-01-23
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: mysql security buffer overflow
Cross references:
Obsoletes: RHBA-2000:133 RHBA-2000:067

Topic

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Linux 7.0 - alpha, i386

Bugs Fixed

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