Advisories, July 17, 2006 | Linux Today

Advisories, July 17, 2006

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 18, 2006

Debian Security Advisory DSA 1112-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/
Moritz Muehlenhoff
July 18th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq


Package : mysql-dfsg-4.1
Vulnerability : several
Problem-Type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2006-3081 CVE-2006-3469
Debian Bug : 373913 375694

Several local vulnerabilities have been discovered in the MySQL
database server, which may lead to denial of service. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following
problems:

CVE-2006-3081

“Kanatoko” discovered that the server can be crashed with
feeding NULL values to the str_to_date() function.

CVE-2006-3469

Jean-David Maillefer discovered that the server can be crashed
with specially crafted date_format() function calls.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been
fixed in version 4.1.11a-4sarge5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) does no longer contain MySQL
4.1 packages. MySQL 5.0 from sid is not affected.

We recommend that you upgrade your mysql-dfsg-4.1 packages.

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 below:

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


Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-dfsg-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5.dsc

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1021
9cd4f7df9345856d06846e0ddb50b9ee
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-dfsg-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5.diff.gz

      Size/MD5 checksum: 168442
e45db0b01b3adaf09500d54090f3a1e1
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-dfsg-4.1_4.1.11a.orig.tar.gz

      Size/MD5 checksum: 15771855
3c0582606a8903e758c2014c2481c7c3

Architecture independent components:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-common-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_all.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 36520
e8115191126dc0b373a53024e5c78733

Alpha architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14_4.1.11a-4sarge5_alpha.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1590788
297b4444903885a19c76a1217e83477d
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14-dev_4.1.11a-4sarge5_alpha.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 7965184
8df4e20d157517541228fa52e4c60dbc
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-client-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_alpha.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1000952
4d62bca949f80c09f043a78b9e701ca5
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-server-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_alpha.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 17487070
b357fcab1b57764e1ee8a341dd30def3

AMD64 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14_4.1.11a-4sarge5_amd64.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1452034
a22b66b8e00b2409bf1428834af1073b
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14-dev_4.1.11a-4sarge5_amd64.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 5551704
731f50735026de2b95d9e9d9e19a7717
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-client-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_amd64.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 849526
a0a5d944db8261044bcdddbe55ab03d6
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-server-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_amd64.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 14711282
bf471f8b19fe0aa14bf04209c0eac975

ARM architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14_4.1.11a-4sarge5_arm.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1388864
1ed00eac905063c7caa7702bb6a4dcda
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14-dev_4.1.11a-4sarge5_arm.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 5558854
46fac3302d6e4677bb1dbce5f5aa1387
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-client-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_arm.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 836766
5487191a4af54786066ac720456b5b68
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-server-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_arm.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 14557630
1369e1f83fad8dfcbea1618e0acd821e

Intel IA-32 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14_4.1.11a-4sarge5_i386.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1418036
ab5768abe67a1d21c714a078f2ec86f0
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14-dev_4.1.11a-4sarge5_i386.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 5643732
bf891e68e488947fd28a940a367d722f
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-client-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_i386.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 830724
f5d4a9e5b289d895ba021190f907829f
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-server-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_i386.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 14558034
b580eeaf7a3806b95a07435acbe48e27

Intel IA-64 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14_4.1.11a-4sarge5_ia64.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1713308
0067b2b9c41a412defde52f366e3c897
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14-dev_4.1.11a-4sarge5_ia64.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 7782486
3aabc5d9cf4bd642de338d58bdaf06f5
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-client-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_ia64.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1050616
d23aac0cd8ee2af56e54dfb5bac2f330
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-server-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_ia64.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 18475936
9ddfe01a4b31abfed11b9bde23fac76f

HP Precision architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14_4.1.11a-4sarge5_hppa.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1551202
77244af3e0edbeaf716764fe9ac81e6f
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14-dev_4.1.11a-4sarge5_hppa.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 6250286
fd9cb45d760605ee2a89f70af5cb9af3
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-client-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_hppa.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 910046
38698cebd4b9f438fd09d9bbb9dcd92c
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-server-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_hppa.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 15791130
8517866821789c2ac7343f9db6f59d3f

Motorola 680×0 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14_4.1.11a-4sarge5_m68k.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1397964
e5166b54d56236e0bcbd677ae0b0612f
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14-dev_4.1.11a-4sarge5_m68k.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 5284080
48f187b76145ed53de71074d1e19bd6a
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-client-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_m68k.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 803870
699c9078240853a353fbd70504285d51
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-server-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_m68k.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 14072018
f2837081c2ff82f8510234e174db38b4

Big endian MIPS architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14_4.1.11a-4sarge5_mips.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1478938
f6865d5d185ecc5b20dac7d0d7e129da
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14-dev_4.1.11a-4sarge5_mips.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 6053046
43b3f77618248df20870c85301465095
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-client-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_mips.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 904490
351bde467510be873c1a2cdc57048523
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-server-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_mips.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 15409966
a0332059581d3de6922e9313d6eef676

Little endian MIPS architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14_4.1.11a-4sarge5_mipsel.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1446348
46a4c7d996016a4adcf56440b05fef21
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14-dev_4.1.11a-4sarge5_mipsel.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 5971326
6467ab19215d4e0e45084d3530929683
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-client-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_mipsel.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 890130
52b93510c81b7d296074fc4c36a6d847
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-server-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_mipsel.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 15105474
1ffe09b6dc5b370067bf337109188a25

PowerPC architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14_4.1.11a-4sarge5_powerpc.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1476860
3b5a3a41dcb3744a289e78e3310d1df1
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14-dev_4.1.11a-4sarge5_powerpc.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 6027448
99a562b660721bc4dacd8997de8aab1f
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-client-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_powerpc.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 907410
9893e547ddfe66215e6bc3da4bf69724
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-server-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_powerpc.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 15403210
25c8ae97be006ad171df2f3bdedc72a2

IBM S/390 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14_4.1.11a-4sarge5_s390.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1538550
b105d416c3bcd7875984cecac926d076
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14-dev_4.1.11a-4sarge5_s390.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 5461556
00100b922054d9b9c3fc22b3a92b60c7
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-client-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_s390.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 884294
37fe2778f39871852f9fa53677cffe2c
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-server-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_s390.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 15055516
c22496ba5559e2fbb1f0a37cd889ee0b

Sun Sparc architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14_4.1.11a-4sarge5_sparc.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 1460576
f4a2d46769a708b1ef70aa85e2b09277
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/libmysqlclient14-dev_4.1.11a-4sarge5_sparc.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 6208040
3dc2de911cc6cbcb4f637bfccbce988a
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-client-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_sparc.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 868258
1671384fa14d81404e3af7ffb555073e
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/mysql-server-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge5_sparc.deb

      Size/MD5 checksum: 15392304
6d9b9d762aa6088e416c1b987f853e96

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution
on its next update.


For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/
stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security
dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>’ and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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