USN-274-1: MySQL vulnerability
27 April 2006
mysql-dfsg vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 5.10
- Ubuntu 5.04
- Ubuntu 4.10
Software Description
Details
A logging bypass was discovered in the MySQL query parser. A local attacker could exploit this by inserting NUL characters into query strings (even into comments), which would cause the query to be logged incompletely.
This only affects you if you enabled the ‘log’ parameter in the MySQL configuration.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 5.10
- mysql-server
- Ubuntu 5.04
- mysql-server
- Ubuntu 4.10
- mysql-server
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.