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Re: CVE request: MySQL empty bit-string literal server crash

From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:31:18 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Robert Buchholz wrote:

  An empty bit-string literal (b'') caused a server crash. Now the value
  is parsed as an empty bit value (which is treated as an empty string
  in string context or 0 in numeric context). (Bug#35658)


Use CVE-2008-3963.

- Steve

Current thread:

CVE request: MySQL empty bit-string literal server crash Robert Buchholz (Sep 09)
- Re: CVE request: MySQL empty bit-string literal server crash Steven M. Christey (Sep 09)
- Re: CVE request: MySQL incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2079 Tomas Hoger (Sep 09)
  - Re: CVE request: MySQL incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2079 Steven M. Christey (Sep 15)