The following flaws have recently been publicised in MySQL, public on Oct11 CAN-2004-0835 ALTER TABLE ... RENAME checks wrong rights http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=3270 CAN-2004-0836 buffer overrun in mysql_real_connect http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=4017 CAN-2004-0837 server crash due to locking http://bugs.mysql.com/2408 All these issues affect the mysql-server subpackage only, which was not shipped in RHEL3 but was made available via the unsupported RHN "Extras" channel.
Also CAN-2004-0957 Privilege Escalation on GRANT ALL ON `Foo\_Bar` http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=3933
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-569.html