Red Hat ENTERPRISE 5.4 RELEASE NOTES, Manual

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Chapter 1. Package Updates
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mlocate is a locate/updatedb implementation. It keeps a database of all existing files and allows you to
lookup files by name.
The updatedb program is configured by the mlocate package to run daily. In its default configuration,
updatedb scans included GFS and GFS2 file systems. Running updatedb concurrently on multiple
nodes leads to lock contention and large changes in cache usage. This substantially reduces the
effective performance of the file system. This update excludes GFS volumes from the updatedb scan
by default. As a consequence, locate(1) will not report files located on GFS volumes. (
BZ#221547
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Users are advised to upgrade to this updated mlocate package.
1.144. mod_auth_mysql
1.144.1. RHSA-2009:0259: Moderate security update
Important
This update has already been released (prior to the GA of this release) as the security
errata
RHSA-2009:0259
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An updated mod_auth_mysql package to correct a security issue is now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.
This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response
Team.
The mod_auth_mysql package includes an extension module for the Apache HTTP Server which can
be used to implement web user authentication against a MySQL database.
A flaw was found in the way mod_auth_mysql escaped certain multibyte-encoded strings. If
mod_auth_mysql was configured to use a multibyte character set that allowed a backslash '\' as part of
the character encodings, a remote attacker could inject arbitrary SQL commands into a login request.
(
CVE-2008-2384
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)
Note: This flaw only affected non-default installations where AuthMySQLCharacterSet is
configured to use one of the affected multibyte character sets. Installations that did not use the
AuthMySQLCharacterSet configuration option were not vulnerable to this flaw.
All mod_auth_mysql users are advised to upgrade to the updated package, which contains a
backported patch to resolve this issue. After installing the update, the httpd daemon must be restarted
for the fix to take effect.
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221547
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https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2008-2384.html