I'm not on debian-security, so Ray is forwarding this for me :)
Quoting J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> There was a small fix provided which I applied to my mysql-server package
> and uploaded it as mysql-server_3.22.30-4_i386.deb.
The author of MySQL made an official fix for this bug.
The fix was posted to bugtraq, i also attached it to this message.
Monty, the author, announced a new release, incorporating this patch, for
this week.
Greets,
Robert van der Meulen/Emphyrio
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*** /my/monty/master/mysql-3.23.10-alpha/sql/sql_parse.cc Sun Jan 30
10:42:42 2000
--- ./sql_parse.cc Wed Feb 9 16:05:49 2000
***************
*** 17,22 ****
--- 17,24 ----
#include <m_ctype.h>
#include <thr_alarm.h>
+ #define SCRAMBLE_LENGTH 8
+
extern int yyparse(void);
extern "C" pthread_mutex_t THR_LOCK_keycache;
***************
*** 188,195 ****
end=strmov(buff,server_version)+1;
int4store((uchar*) end,thd->thread_id);
end+=4;
! memcpy(end,thd->scramble,9);
! end+=9;
#ifdef HAVE_COMPRESS
client_flags |= CLIENT_COMPRESS;
#endif /* HAVE_COMPRESS */
--- 190,197 ----
end=strmov(buff,server_version)+1;
int4store((uchar*) end,thd->thread_id);
end+=4;
! memcpy(end,thd->scramble,SCRAMBLE_LENGTH+1);
! end+=SCRAMBLE_LENGTH +1;
#ifdef HAVE_COMPRESS
client_flags |= CLIENT_COMPRESS;
#endif /* HAVE_COMPRESS */
***************
*** 268,273 ****
--- 270,277 ----
char *user= (char*) net->read_pos+5;
char *passwd= strend(user)+1;
char *db=0;
+ if (passwd[0] && strlen(passwd) != SCRAMBLE_LENGTH)
+ return ER_HANDSHAKE_ERROR;
if (thd->client_capabilities & CLIENT_CONNECT_WITH_DB)
db=strend(passwd)+1;
if (thd->client_capabilities & CLIENT_INTERACTIVE)
