mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.77, for redhat-linux-gnu (i686) using readline 5.1 I need to work on MySQL about once every six months, so it's always an exciting re-learning experience ;) Anyway, I ...

Hackers can bypass MySQL password verification. lucian constantin. June 13, 2012. Facebook. Twitter. Linkedin. ReddIt. Email. ... the module copies the MySQL server’s master user table, ...

Security Advisor. MySQL Databases Let Loose User Passwords. By Chris Paoli; 06/13/2012; In this edition's "Password Breach of the Week" story, news recently surfaced that an attacker could gain ...

Under User accounts overview, click on the Edit privileges link which holds root as its username, and localhost as the hostname. On the next page, move to the Change password section.

But in the affected versions of MariaDB and MySQL, as MontyProgram's Sergei Golubchik wrote in a list posting on June 9, the database can be fooled into accepting a password even if it doesn't match.