Users of MySQL please be advised of a denial of service vulnerability that has been identified.
To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)
Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
USN-1017-1: [USN-1017-1] MySQL vulnerabilities
Details follow:
It was discovered that MySQL incorrectly handled certain requests with the
UPGRADE DATA DIRECTORY NAME command. An authenticated user could exploit
this to make MySQL crash, causing a denial of service. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. (CVE-2010-2008)
It was discovered that MySQL incorrectly handled joins involving a table
with a unique SET column. An authenticated user could exploit this to make
MySQL crash, causing a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu
6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. (CVE-2010-3677)
Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
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