-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- _____________________________________________________________________________ SuSE Security Announcement Package: MySQL 3.22.11-29 Date: Mon Jan 17 13:50:37 CET 2000 Affected SuSE versions: 6.1 - 6.3 Vulnerability Type: change MySQL superuser password SuSE default package: no Other affected systems: all unix systems using MySQL ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 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. _____________________________________________________________________________ 1. Problem Description MySQL does not properly check privileges, so it's possible for any MySQL user with GRANT privileges to change the MySQL super- user password. The MySQL install process creates a 'test' user, which has GRANT privileges and no password by default. 2. Impact A malicious MySQL user can change the MySQL superuser password. By default, the MySQL superuser can only connect to the database from the localhost, so a remote attacker is just able to perform a denial-of- service attack. 3. Solution Update the package from our FTP server. ______________________________________________________________________________ Please verify these md5 checksums of the updates before installing: 31d42809423c91c07eeeb2cb0e2629ac mysql-3.22.25-8.alpha.rpm (6.1, AXP) c4d22921a5d8e49b406daabc72617d5d mysqldev-3.22.25-8.alpha.rpm (6.1, AXP) 122cf7ee955630523e3a2679370dc9b3 mysql-3.22.30-0.alpha.rpm (6.3, AXP) 405c2d4ff5e1d506ca674e8472fddff3 mysqldev-3.22.30-0.alpha.rpm (6.3, AXP) fcc11dda6b2458454e811726f8974182 mysql-3.22.30-1.i386.rpm (6.2, i386) dbce19df0dd23f0aeb1bc32305e11798 mysqldev-3.22.30-1.i386.rpm (6.2, i386) 972a27218616d424ba97e8abd7f645b1 mysql-3.22.30-0.i386.rpm (6.3, i386) 0df4b3a5eaff7519c314e125da65297f mysqldev-3.22.30-0.i386.rpm (6.3, i386) ______________________________________________________________________________ You can find updates on our ftp-Server: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/pay1/mysql-3.22.25-8.alpha.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/pay1/mysqldev-3.22.25-8.alpha.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/pay1/mysql-3.22.30-0.alpha.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/pay1/mysqldev-3.22.30-0.alpha.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/pay1/mysql-3.22.30-1.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/pay1/mysqldev-3.22.30-1.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/pay1/mysql-3.22.30-0.i386.rpm or try the following web pages for a list of mirrors: http://www.suse.de/de/support/download/ftp/inland.html http://www.suse.de/de/support/download/ftp/ausland.html or http://www.suse.de/en/support/download/ftp/germ_mirrors.html http://www.suse.de/en/support/download/ftp/int_mirrors.html Our webpage for patches: http://www.suse.de/de/support/download/updates/index.html or http://www.suse.de/en/support/download/updates/index.html Our webpage for security announcements: http://www.suse.de/security If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact security@suse.de ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE has got two free security mailing list services to which any interested party may subscribe: suse-security@suse.com - moderated and for general/linux/SuSE security discussions. 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