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MySQL Multibyte Encoding SQL Injection Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory:	SA20365	Advisory Toolbox: Issue ticket Save in to-do list Mark as handled Exploit information Download as PDF Review actions Add comment
Release Date:	2006-06-02
Popularity:	16,093 views

Critical:	Moderately critical
Impact:	Manipulation of data
Where:	From remote
Solution Status:	Vendor Patch

Software:	MySQL 4.x MySQL 5.x

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CVE reference:	CVE-2006-2753

Description: A vulnerability has been reported in MySQL, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks. The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the server when parsing a query string that is escaped with the "mysql_real_escape_string()" function. This can potentially be exploited in an environment that uses multi-byte character encoding to bypass SQL injection escaping. The vulnerability is related to: SA20231 The vulnerability has been reported in version 4.1.19 and 5.0.21. Prior versions may also be affected. Solution: Update to the fixed versions. MySQL 4.1.x: Update to version 4.1.20. http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.1.html MySQL 5.0.x: Update to version 5.0.22. http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html MySQL 5.1.x: The vulnerability will be fixed in version 5.1.11. Provided and/or discovered by: The vendor credits Josh Berkus and Tom Lane. Original Advisory: MySQL: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/news-4-1-20.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector/j/en/news-5-0-22.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-11.html http://lists.mysql.com/announce/364 http://lists.mysql.com/announce/365 http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=8378 Other References: SA20231: http://secunia.com/advisories/20231/

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