Friday, July 22, 2005

MySQL Multiple Vulnerabilities

Secunia is reporting this morning multiple vulnerabilities which it classifies as "highly critical" in MySQL:

Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in MySQL, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), or potentially by malicious people to execute arbitrary code.

1) MySQL uses a vulnerable version of the zlib library.

For more information:
SA15949

2) It is possible for malicious users to crash the server in various ways. See the vendor advisory for details.

Solution:
Update to version 4.1.13.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.

Original Advisory:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/news-4-1-13.html

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