Red Hat 7.1 RHSA-2003:093-01 Critical: MySQL Double-Free & Root Exploit

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.

5. Bug IDs fixed ( for more info):

85898 - double-free vulnerability in mysqld < 3.23.55 85971 - possible root exploit in mysqld startup 77662 - mysql RPM's do not provide a thread safe library

6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 7.1:

SRPMS:

i386:

Red Hat Linux 7.2:

SRPMS:

i386:

ia64:

Red Hat Linux 7.3:

SRPMS:

i386:

Red Hat Linux 8.0:

SRPMS:

i386:

7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name e7487478940f7fb152bd94dce219a99b 7.1/en/os/SRPMS/mysql-3.23.56-1.71.src.rpm 7f913c1ef0ad361fba8938270a93c474 7.1/en/os/i386/mysql-3.23.56-1.71.i386.rpm 31f5618bb189b0520083210bbc19cdfb 7.1/en/os/i386/mysql-devel-3.23.56-1.71.i386.rpm 9b1ba658cf7695f7fb626581ad3e700f 7.1/en/os/i386/mysql-server-3.23.56-1.71.i386.rpm 54f783324c224840fe7ea702fe628ec2 7.2/en/os/SRPMS/mysql-3.23.56-1.72.src.rpm d1efdb7796e0444302ee3f426ca06c85 7.2/en/os/i386/mysql-3.23.56-1.72.i386.rpm 9b77319f6ecc7e5431efc99e7a291334 7.2/en/os/i386/mysql-devel-3.23.56-1.72.i386.rpm ef3c7d3e1bfe3b835ee07b8d2eda7e21 7.2/en/os/i386/mysql-server-3.23.56-1.72.i386.rpm fcdac19a133fcf7feb34e06877ed1242 7.2/en/os/ia64/mysql-3.23.56-1.72.ia64.rpm 6d5ed02bee3fe571275b5053cebc6c94 7.2/en/os/ia64/mysql-devel-3.23.56-1.72.ia64.rpm 19737a4c7f39bd37fbd73d0388d2c847 7.2/en/os/ia64/mysql-server-3.23.56-1.72.ia64.rpm ab0e0b34299f786e032e0aa885c046d0 7.3/en/os/SRPMS/mysql-3.23.56-1.73.src.rpm 7024c33fbdd861d28733d549d29e5d12 7.3/en/os/i386/mysql-3.23.56-1.73.i386.rpm 2d9a1b8f6dcc9d336071ec5b889404a6 7.3/en/os/i386/mysql-devel-3.23.56-1.73.i386.rpm fb5615fe718df6410a3382d892a56b4c 7.3/en/os/i386/mysql-server-3.23.56-1.73.i386.rpm 345bdf55ad90f9d00e771e464c4830c7 8.0/en/os/SRPMS/mysql-3.23.56-1.80.src.rpm 9b339a91222cdbb941c1cbf0d107f10a 8.0/en/os/i386/mysql-3.23.56-1.80.i386.rpm 618b4be6bf5744c9cb44c2f008bc2e76 8.0/en/os/i386/mysql-devel-3.23.56-1.80.i386.rpm 3e0f97fd1a0c1472869b5c390c775163 8.0/en/os/i386/mysql-server-3.23.56-1.80.i386.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key is available at All Red Hat products

You can verify each package with the following command:

rpm --checksig -v

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

md5sum