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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:06:44 +0100
From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@...til.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: coley <coley@...re.org>
Subject: Re: Clear text password in process list when using
MySQL GUI tools
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 08:38:06AM -0500, Josh Bressers wrote:
> Steve,
>
> What are the thoughts of MITRE on this one? This affects all sorts of stuff,
> and I don't upstream removing the command line option (which is probably the
> only fix).
I didn't look into this specific issue since both mysql-query-browser
and mysql-admin have been removed and are no longer supported in Debian,
but there have been cases in the past, where leaking sensitive information
in the process list was assigned a CVE ID, e.g. CVE-2004-1948 for
ncftp.
Cheers,
Moritz
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