Package : mysql-dfsg-4.1 Vulnerability : several Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE IDs : CVE-2006-4226 CVE-2006-4380 BugTraq ID : 19559
Several local vulnerabilities have been discovered in the MySQL database server. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2006-4226
Michal Prokopiuk discovered that remote authenticated users are permitted to create and access a database if the lowercase spelling is the same as one they have been granted access to.
CVE-2006-4380
Beat Vontobel discovered that certain queries replicated to a slave could crash the client and thus terminate the replication.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 4.1.11a-4sarge7. Version 4.0 is not affected by these problems.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 5.0.24-3. The replication problem only exists in version 4.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your mysql-server-4.1 package.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given at the end of this advisory:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------