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Bug 659609

Summary: mysqld segfaults during SHOW CREATE TABLE
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: mysqlAssignee: Tom Lane <tgl>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 5.4CC: azelinka, bmason, byte, cww, hhorak, jbastian, kvolny, pm-eus, tao, tgl
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Prior to this update, an attempt to show a "CREATE TABLE" statement that defines a view with a missing table, or to explain an incorrect query caused the MySQL server to terminate with a segmentation fault due to an incorrect null pointer dereference. This error has been fixed, a guard to prevent a null pointer from being dereferenced has been added, and MySQL server no longer crashes.
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Last Closed: 2011-01-31 08:50:20 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 543730    
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Description RHEL Program Management 2010-12-03 07:26:28 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #543730 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.5 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 5 Jaromir Hradilek 2010-12-06 16:43:32 UTC
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
Prior to this update, an attempt to show a "CREATE TABLE" statement that defines a view with a missing table, or to explain an incorrect query caused the MySQL server to terminate with a segmentation fault due to an incorrect null pointer dereference. This error has been fixed, a guard to prevent a null pointer from being dereferenced has been added, and MySQL server no longer crashes.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-31 08:50:20 UTC
An advisory 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 therefore 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/RHBA-2011-0184.html