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 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDVSA-2012:178
 http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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 Package : mysql
 Date    : December 9, 2012
 Affected: 2011.
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 Problem Description:

 A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in mysql:

 Stack-based buffer overflow in MySQL 5.5.19, 5.1.53, and possibly
 other versions, and MariaDB 5.5.2.x before 5.5.28a, 5.3.x before
 5.3.11, 5.2.x before 5.2.13 and 5.1.x before 5.1.66, allows remote
 authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a long argument to
 the GRANT FILE command (CVE-2012-5611).

 The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
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 References:

 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5611
 https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3884
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 Updated Packages:

 Mandriva Linux 2011:
 ff0309de8681f16d0a734c69d12df7be 
2011/i586/libmysql18-5.5.28-0.2-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
 7f0e3a03817e8880bcfe492bbec02a28 
2011/i586/libmysqld0-5.5.28-0.2-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
 6479145f2da7ce93f628e420573f648d 
2011/i586/libmysql-devel-5.5.28-0.2-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
 5074e837ef6c24036d5143a583e71481 
2011/i586/libmysqlservices0-5.5.28-0.2-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
 6cdb7f606a69d1ebf9a623d2d2179e7c 
2011/i586/libmysql-static-devel-5.5.28-0.2-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
 75284b333e3526dee66619febca5e77f  2011/i586/mysql-5.5.28-0.2-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
 cfc3128a705e7e149648ddddaee1f566 
2011/i586/mysql-bench-5.5.28-0.2-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
 bb73345742c31c50e105422fdaf85a1f 
2011/i586/mysql-client-5.5.28-0.2-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
 61784e3e2ca10c8fb9e020f40459a6c1 
2011/i586/mysql-common-5.5.28-0.2-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
 b3f544a2940b37c5fa6621bec18c4494 
2011/i586/mysql-common-core-5.5.28-0.2-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
 822bbf2f001f9e0050a043f64f377439 
2011/i586/mysql-core-5.5.28-0.2-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
 e269ae6402601cfca5e3f8fdefc48ce4  2011/SRPMS/mysql-5.5.28-0.2.src.rpm

 Mandriva Linux 2011/X86_64:
 57d696558ecebc9ac55122ce2d63ae2b 
2011/x86_64/lib64mysql18-5.5.28-0.2-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
 e32847ce528f1df0783bb285cf581857 
2011/x86_64/lib64mysqld0-5.5.28-0.2-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
 2e40dafa02f9016ddfba2d85639de9f7 
2011/x86_64/lib64mysql-devel-5.5.28-0.2-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
 dbf3aa6532cd9d8bb0a66e2f312f8f18 
2011/x86_64/lib64mysqlservices0-5.5.28-0.2-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
 54471569205bba0d41ba8ed59f8eb66d 
2011/x86_64/lib64mysql-static-devel-5.5.28-0.2-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
 3423c54eaeecb356c91b886513050d99  2011/x86_64/mysql-5.5.28-0.2-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
 ed7644633e11588933e503c3122f0d38 
2011/x86_64/mysql-bench-5.5.28-0.2-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
 f7edf049b97ec236519aa1f4bbfcd356 
2011/x86_64/mysql-client-5.5.28-0.2-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
 617aea5c0f7fe2133f87dce5b174558f 
2011/x86_64/mysql-common-5.5.28-0.2-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
 2299b31e64e2a204707953843ebd0dcd 
2011/x86_64/mysql-common-core-5.5.28-0.2-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
 ec3b9fe5ad2e77784c5e315b2c596a60 
2011/x86_64/mysql-core-5.5.28-0.2-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
 e269ae6402601cfca5e3f8fdefc48ce4  2011/SRPMS/mysql-5.5.28-0.2.src.rpm
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