Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 23:01:49 +0100 (MET)
From: marc@suse.de (Marc Heuse)
Subject: [suse-security-announce] SuSE Security Announcement - mysql

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                        SuSE Security Announcement

        Package: mysql < 3.22.30
        Date:    Fri, 11 Feb 2000 21:54:49 GMT

        Affected SuSE versions: all
        Vulnerability Type:     remote database access
	SuSE default package:   no
	Other affected systems: all unix systems using mysql < 3.22.30
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A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above.
Please update as soon as possible or disable the service if you are using
this software on your SuSE Linux installation(s).

Other Linux distributions or operating systems might be affected as
well, please contact your vendor for information about this issue.

Please note, that that we provide this information on an "as-is" basis only.
There is no warranty whatsoever and no liability for any direct, indirect or
incidental damage arising from this information or the installation of
the update package.
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1. Problem Description

  A bug in the authentication function of mysql allows anyone who knows
  a valid username to successfully authenticate as that users in no more
  than 32 tries.

2. Impact

  Remote users may gain access to the mysql database data.

3. Solution

  Update the package from our FTP server.
  Please note that it will take some time until rpms for 6.1 are available,
  because the security patch does not work on that tree. As a workaround, you
  might try the rpm for SuSE 6.2
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Please verify these md5 checksums of the updates before installing:
(6.1 updates are not available yet. You might try the 6.2 rpm in the meantime.)

f54f552d0d7137ae9c2fa44968e32e25  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/pay1/mysql-3.22.30-4.alpha.rpm
ff61bdf78c72bb8906578533581188b5  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/pay1/mysql-3.22.30-4.i386.rpm
7e8415360e52a100ffb759099dbc8f25  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/pay1/mysql-3.22.30-4.i386.rpm
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You can find updates on our ftp-Server:

  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update for Intel processors
  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update  for Alpha processors

or try the following web pages for a list of mirrors:
  http://www.suse.de/ftp.html
  http://www.suse.com/ftp_new.html

Our webpage for patches:
  http://www.suse.de/patches/index.html

Our webpage for security announcements:
  http://www.suse.de/security

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact
  security@suse.de
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