Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1910-1 mysql-ocaml -- missing escape function
- Date Reported:
- 14 Oct 2009
- Affected Packages:
- mysql-ocaml
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-2942.
- More information:
-
It was discovered that mysql-ocaml, OCaml bindings for MySql, was missing a function to call mysql_real_escape_string(). This is needed, because mysql_real_escape_string() honours the charset of the connection and prevents insufficient escaping, when certain multibyte character encodings are used. The added function is called real_escape() and takes the established database connection as a first argument. The old escape_string() was kept for backwards compatibility.
Developers using these bindings are encouraged to adjust their code to use the new function.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-2+etch1.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-4+lenny1.
For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your mysql-ocaml packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/mysql-ocaml_1.0.4-2+etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/mysql-ocaml_1.0.4-2+etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/mysql-ocaml_1.0.4-2+etch1.dsc
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-2+etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml-dev_1.0.4-2+etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml-dev_1.0.4-2+etch1_amd64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml-dev_1.0.4-2+etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-2+etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-2+etch1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml-dev_1.0.4-2+etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-2+etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-2+etch1_mipsel.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml-dev_1.0.4-2+etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-2+etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-2+etch1_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/mysql-ocaml_1.0.4-4+lenny1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/mysql-ocaml_1.0.4-4+lenny1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/mysql-ocaml_1.0.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/mysql-ocaml_1.0.4-4+lenny1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml-dev_1.0.4-4+lenny1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-4+lenny1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-4+lenny1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-4+lenny1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml-dev_1.0.4-4+lenny1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml-dev_1.0.4-4+lenny1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml-dev_1.0.4-4+lenny1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-4+lenny1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-4+lenny1_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-4+lenny1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml-dev_1.0.4-4+lenny1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml-dev_1.0.4-4+lenny1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-4+lenny1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml-dev_1.0.4-4+lenny1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml-dev_1.0.4-4+lenny1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml-dev_1.0.4-4+lenny1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-4+lenny1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-4+lenny1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml-dev_1.0.4-4+lenny1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-4+lenny1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-4+lenny1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-4+lenny1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml-dev_1.0.4-4+lenny1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml-dev_1.0.4-4+lenny1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-4+lenny1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml-dev_1.0.4-4+lenny1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml-dev_1.0.4-4+lenny1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml-dev_1.0.4-4+lenny1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-4+lenny1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-4+lenny1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml_1.0.4-4+lenny1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml-dev_1.0.4-4+lenny1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql-ocaml/libmysql-ocaml-dev_1.0.4-4+lenny1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.