SuSe: mysql multiple vulnerabilities
Summary
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SuSE Security Announcement
Package: mysql
Announcement-ID: SuSE-SA:2003:003
Date: Thu Jan 2 15:00:00 MET 2003
Affected products: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 8.1,
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7,
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8,
SuSE Linux Connectivity Server,
SuSE Linux Office Server,
UnitedLinux 1.0
Vulnerability Type: remote command execution
Severity (1-10): 6
SuSE default package: no
Cross References:
Content of this advisory:
1) security vulnerability resolved: Signedness issue and password
checking in mysqld, buffer overflow in mysqlclient library.
problem description, discussion, solution and upgrade information
2) pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds: grub
3) standard appendix (further information)
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1) problem description, brief discussion, solution, upgrade information
Stefan Esser from e-matters reported various bugs in MySQL. Within the
MySQL server the password checking and a signedness issue has been fixed.
These could lead to a remote compromise of the system running an unpatched
MySQL server. In order to exploit this bug, the remote attacker needs a
valid MySQL account.
Further, a buffer overflow in the mysqlclient library has been reported
and fixed. Applications using this library (as commonly used from within
PHP scripts) are vulnerable to this attack and could also be compromised
by remote attackers.
Since there is no workaround possible except shutting down the MySQL
server, we strongly recommend an update.
Please download the update package for your distribution and verify its
integrity by the methods listed in section 3) of this announcement.
Then, install the package using the command "rpm -Fhv file.rpm" to apply
the update.
Our maintenance customers are being notified individually. The packages
are being offered to install from the maintenance web.
To be sure the update takes effect you have to restart the MySQL server
by executing the following command as root:
/etc/rc.d/mysql restart
If you run applications which utilize the mysqlclient library (i.e. software
that accesses a MySQL database server) make sure you restart them again to
force the use of the patched libraries.
We thank MySQL Product and Release Engineer Lenz Grimmer as well as
e-matters Stefan Esser who discovered the bugs for their committment to
security matters and the communication of them.
i386 Intel Platform:
SuSE-8.1:
3d6ede325e9abb155ec043c7b3406963
7de01d80d0d04ef09c16d490da20eb80
1b04831d6c838ee98ae76626b632640a
patch rpm(s):
6e054f2f7a2f698d45424f939031b59f
4339ae7b1bf4c792529eec784d0dbf9a
c797f92a05aff6cf202597e5b132e91a
source rpm(s):
d9ee023e43fe6fba95a2d06a74ecc7de
SuSE-8.0:
690c230feee9f1fe70c1c749a2869002
c9f595ef30a4b509145343d71e2883a3
cebe56578cda9c7e2abf66f37b5f4e92
patch rpm(s):
a895a353044c5f1e3b3e3ad604154b44
f25cf16f4137087358fca3afb483a060
51a37bc09a2166985f64dcb3ca32b310
source rpm(s):
8ef39453726a5718dfd04e96d4dda563
SuSE-7.3:
4f77fbc7eed3d2a59a6bb1c6bd531fa5
ed5c6dec77a1d3ae7104648174cc3436
3a42e424582dacec4b0e9b16efac6139
source rpm(s):
88c7853aed32efcb6574f778dd232ba1
SuSE-7.2:
938cbbe502417853db0f775bb8e92c44
7a7512942891bf6e1f4b720040904ba5
57735d0f9785f6fc77788f3b13b332f5
source rpm(s):
6f38945f2b4f75102ac99b2dc3428b8d
SuSE-7.1:
a9d713d2a0a31984978824b4f125639d
90161c0e243abc25144a55604b2e2f09
c49b07eec14807229b52290a22813f8d
source rpm(s):
0bb214ca23113955fc0f130f20c1fd39
Sparc Platform:
SuSE-7.3:
e3296fa34a5cfd176242edfda6e376a2
e96d4daefea1651404d8c9cfebaec942
afb5dfad0a91e744eb6e57f70ad1472b
source rpm(s):
17cededbc0bfc0090a9b7def28289c70
AXP Alpha Platform:
SuSE-7.1:
c1da6b2e077c630d3d15241cf2009df2
67aecaf18483d7f269eac1bd1729630b
23ce1f6ad353d636869b76e8af11036b
source rpm(s):
abafa3a973f2890d2c5909f485c195ae
PPC Power PC Platform:
SuSE-7.3:
0a1726674eb97da908d847682b864a0f
470881fcae2294ed3adcb98d68a98b09
9b19744767d031e42ea02e4afc02126e
source rpm(s):
9da2de99332ea5b276e98ff28ae22760
SuSE-7.1:
f30776f31ca3e7b0875a939d53a9a974
38f22162c25e04e3b640cc37c2730bbd
fc444c30aa506a592be3c3498246dc63
source rpm(s):
6cc3ab3601383b99b1da4959c1aa4961
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2) Pending vulnerabilities in SuSE Distributions and Workarounds:
- grub
The grub boot manager allows users with physical access to the
terminal to circumvent the password protection from grub. Fixed
packages will soon be available.
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3) standard appendix: authenticity verification, additional information
- Package authenticity verification:
SuSE update packages are available on many mirror ftp servers all over
the world. While this service is being considered valuable and important
to the free and open source software community, many users wish to be
sure about the origin of the package and its content before installing
the package. There are two verification methods that can be used
independently from each other to prove the authenticity of a downloaded
file or rpm package:
1) md5sums as provided in the (cryptographically signed) announcement.
2) using the internal gpg signatures of the rpm package.
1) execute the command
md5sum
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