Description: The remote host is missing an update to mysql-dfsg-4.1 announced via advisory DSA 833-2.
A stack-based buffer overflow in the init_syms function of MySQL, a popular database, has been discovered that allows remote authenticated users who can create user-defined functions to execute arbitrary code via a long function_name field. The ability to create user-defined functions is not typically granted to untrusted users.
The following vulnerability matrix explains which version of MySQL in which distribution has this problem fixed: