MySQL: Denial of Service

MySQL: Denial of Service A Denial of Service vulnerability was found in MySQL. mysql November 18, 2007 November 18, 2007: 01 198988 remote 5.0.44-r2 5.0.44-r2

MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL server.

Joe Gallo and Artem Russakovskii reported an error in the convert_search_mode_to_innobase() function in ha_innodb.cc in the InnoDB engine that is leading to a failed assertion when handling CONTAINS operations.

A remote authenticated attacker with ALTER privileges could send a specially crafted request to a vulnerable database server possibly leading to a Denial of Service.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All MySQL users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/mysql-5.0.44-r2"

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