Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Gentoo, which could be exploited by malicious users to bypass security restrictions. This issue is caused by an error in MySQL. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1472

Affected Products

dev-db/mysql versions prior to 5.0.60-r1

Solution

Upgrade the affected package :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=dev-db/mysql-5.0.60-r1"

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2497
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200809-04.xml

ChangeLog

2008-09-05 : Initial release

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