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<glsa id="200711-25">
  <title>MySQL: Denial of service</title>
  <synopsis>
    A Denial of Service vulnerability was found in MySQL.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">mysql</product>
  <announced>2007-11-18</announced>
  <revised count="01">2007-11-18</revised>
  <bug>198988</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-db/mysql" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">5.0.44-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">5.0.44-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL server.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Joe Gallo and Artem Russakovskii reported an error in the
    convert_search_mode_to_innobase() function in ha_innodb.cc in the
    InnoDB engine that is leading to a failed assertion when handling
    CONTAINS operations.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote authenticated attacker with ALTER privileges could send a
    specially crafted request to a vulnerable database server possibly
    leading to a Denial of Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All MySQL users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-db/mysql-5.0.44-r2"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5925">CVE-2007-5925</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-11-18T14:18:51Z">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-11-18T20:09:52Z">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-11-18T20:10:13Z">
    rbu
  </metadata>
</glsa>
