Debian: DSA 1112-1 Major: mysql-dfsg-4.1 Denial Of Service Attack

"Kanatoko" discovered that the server can be crashed with feeding
NULL values to the str_to_date() function.

CVE-2006-3469

Jean-David Maillefer discovered that the server can be crashed with
specially crafted date_format() function calls.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 4.1.11a-4sarge5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) does no longer contain MySQL 4.1
packages. MySQL 5.0 from sid is not affected.

We recommend that you upgrade your mysql-dfsg-4.1 packages.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


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