Two critical zero-day vulnerabilities have been discovered in the world's 2nd most popular database management software MySQL that could allow an attacker to take full control over the database.

Two zero-days vulnerabilities, CVE-2016-6662 and CVE-2016-6663 that affect all currently supported MySQL versions has been discovered by Polish security researcher, Dawid Golunski. These ...

20160915.2347.CEST: Kenny informed me of Patrick Forsberg's catch that the original patch did not safeguard against ../ abuse. I've now replaced the patch with one that is more stringent (based on a ...

Patches to fix up the programming blunders were quietly released last week. The flaws are present in all default installations of MySQL 5.5, 5.6 and 5.7. Grab versions 5.5.52, 5.6.33 and 5.7.15 to ...

Every morning at 09:00UTC our vault servers run a cron job to renew some long-lived tokens. We have 3 vault servers, so this cron job runs simultaneously on each machine. Every morning one of the cron ...

MySQL is a common database amongst many organizations. As such, when building an automation script that needs to query data from somewhere, you might run into the need to query a MySQL database. By ...

Critical vulnerabilities in MySQL and database servers MariaDB and PerconaDB can lead to arbitrary code execution, root privilege escalation, and server compromise. Critical vulnerabilities in MySQL ...

When it comes to open-source licenses, developers have their fair share of choices (GPL, BSD, MIT, Apache, etc.), all of them with their own pros and cons. The same goes for commercial licenses. MySQL ...