From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 Description of problem: The URL provides the following summary: Double-free vulnerability in mysqld for MySQL before 3.23.55 allows attackers with MySQL access to cause a denial of service (crash) via mysql_change_user. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.look at the code 2. 3. Additional info:
Have a patch ready... building errata on 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3/8.0/AS
Held this patch back and waited for MySQL 3.23.56 (which also includes a fix for a root exploit). This will be available via the errata system.