Several local vulnerabilities have been discovered in the MySQL database server, which may lead to denial of service. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2006-3081 "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.
Several local vulnerabilities have been discovered in the MySQL database server, which may lead to denial of service. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
"Kanatoko" discovered that the server can be crashed with feeding NULL values to the str_to_date() function.
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.
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.