New bug found in MySQL
Thursday, 14 October 2004 17:12 EST
Users of the increasingly popular, open-source MySQL database may be at risk from remote attacks due to a bug in phpMyAdmin, a widely used Web-based MySQL administration tool.
On Wednesday the phpMyAdmin project warned of a bug in the way the tool's MIME-based transformation system handles "external" transformations. Attackers could exploit the hole to execute arbitrary commands on a Web server with the privileges of the server's user, the project said in a statement.
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