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<glsa id="200410-22">
  <title>MySQL: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Several vulnerabilities including privilege abuse, Denial of Service, and
    potentially remote arbitrary code execution have been discovered in MySQL.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">MySQL</product>
  <announced>October 24, 2004</announced>
  <revised>October 24, 2004: 01</revised>
  <bug>67062</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-db/mysql" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.0.21</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.0.21</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    MySQL is a popular open-source, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database
    server.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in MySQL:
    </p>
    <p>
    Oleksandr Byelkin found that ALTER TABLE ... RENAME checks CREATE/INSERT
    rights of the old table instead of the new one (CAN-2004-0835). Another
    privilege checking bug allowed users to grant rights on a database they had
    no rights on.
    </p>
    <p>
    Dean Ellis found a defect where multiple threads ALTERing the MERGE tables
    to change the UNION could cause the server to crash (CAN-2004-0837).
    Another crash was found in MATCH ... AGAINST() queries with missing closing
    double quote.
    </p>
    <p>
    Finally, a buffer overrun in the mysql_real_connect function was found by
    Lukasz Wojtow (CAN-2004-0836).
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    The privilege checking issues could be used by remote users to bypass their
    rights on databases. The two crashes issues could be exploited by a remote
    user to perform a Denial of Service attack on MySQL server. The buffer
    overrun issue could also be exploited as a Denial of Service attack, and
    may allow to execute arbitrary code with the rights of the MySQL daemon
    (typically, the "mysql" user).
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All MySQL users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge sync

    # emerge -pv ">=dev-db/mysql-4.0.21"
    # emerge ">=dev-db/mysql-4.0.21"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0835">CAN-2004-0835</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0836">CAN-2004-0836</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0837">CAN-2004-0837</uri>
    <uri link="http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=3933">Privilege granting bug</uri>
    <uri link="http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=3870">MATCH ... AGAINST crash bug</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:45:22 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:06:53 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:53:17 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>