what happened to mysql vulnerability

[Jan Demter]

Am 11.07.2004 um 10:27 schrieb Haim Ashkenazi:
> in the last few days I saw a vulnerability in the portaudit output for
> mysql 4.0.20. checking mysql website I saw that they didn't release a 
> fix
> yet for the 4.0 series (only for 4.1). I could wait for it because the
> problem is not so bad for me since I use "skip-networking" in my mysql
> configuration. last night the warning disappeared from the output of
> portaudit and I didn't upgrade anything. any idea why?

MySQL 4.0 is not affected by this particular vulnerability, it was
put in the portaudit-database in error at first and then corrected 
later.

You can look up what changed and why in the portaudit-database here:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/security/portaudit-db/
database/portaudit.txt

yours,
Jan
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