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Date:      Sun, 11 Jul 2004 12:08:58 +0200
From:      Jan Demter <jan.d@online.de>
To:        Haim Ashkenazi <haim@babysnakes.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: what happened to mysql vulnerability
Message-ID:  <53104FEB-D322-11D8-9FD7-000A95A951B0@online.de>
In-Reply-To: <pan.2004.07.11.08.27.16.598733@babysnakes.org>
References:  <pan.2004.07.11.08.27.16.598733@babysnakes.org>

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Am 11.07.2004 um 10:27 schrieb Haim Ashkenazi:
> in the last few days I saw a vulnerability in the portaudit output for
> mysql 4.0.20. checking mysql website I saw that they didn't release a 
> fix
> yet for the 4.0 series (only for 4.1). I could wait for it because the
> problem is not so bad for me since I use "skip-networking" in my mysql
> configuration. last night the warning disappeared from the output of
> portaudit and I didn't upgrade anything. any idea why?

MySQL 4.0 is not affected by this particular vulnerability, it was
put in the portaudit-database in error at first and then corrected 
later.

You can look up what changed and why in the portaudit-database here:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/security/portaudit-db/
database/portaudit.txt

yours,
Jan
-- 
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  Dollar 110 Millionen Dollar zu machen, ist unvermeidlich."
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