Re: MySQL command-line client HTML injection vulnerability

[Michael Scheidell <scheidell () secnap net>]

> Hi Thomas,
>
> This bug was fixed in a MySQL release dated 01 May 2008.  It is now 01
> Oct 2008 - 5 months after the bug was released.  So why exactly is this
> news?  Did I miss something here?


Not fixed in any version I know of.
Patch has been available for 5 months, but this has not gotten into any
production version (or am I wrong?)
Try this on your system:

mysql --html --execute "select '<a>'"

If you get this, then its not patched:
<TABLE BORDER=1><TR><TH><a></TH></TR><TR><TD><a></TD></TR></TABLE>

If you get this (on 5.1, a little different than 5.0) than its patched:
(note the escaped <a>)
-- 
Michael Scheidell, CTO
> |SECNAP Network Security
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<TABLE 
BORDER=1><TR><TH>&lt;a&gt;</TH></TR><TR><TD>&lt;a&gt;</TD></TR></TABLE>


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