oss-security - Re: CVE request: MySQL empty bit-string literal server crash

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Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:31:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: MySQL empty bit-string literal server
 crash

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Robert Buchholz wrote:

>   An empty bit-string literal (b'') caused a server crash. Now the value
>   is parsed as an empty bit value (which is treated as an empty string
>   in string context or 0 in numeric context). (Bug#35658)

Use CVE-2008-3963.

- Steve

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