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MySQL Win32 Exposes Admin Password

Secunia Advisory:

SA9565

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Release Date:

2003-08-19

Popularity:

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Critical:

Less critical

Impact:

Exposure of sensitive information

Where:

Local system

Solution Status:

Unpatched

OS:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows 95
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows Millenium
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server, Terminal Server Edition
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Software:

MySQL 3.x
MySQL 4.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in MySQL on Windows systems allowing malicious, local users to see the administrative username and password.

The problem is that no access restrictions are applied to "my.ini" and that the username and password is stored in clear text.

This has been reported to affect MySQL 3 and MySQL 4 on Windows. Unix and Linux based versions are not affected.

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