Security flaw in MySQL

[DanO]

Just came across this:

[url]http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/security-flaw-in-mysql-mariadb-allows-access-with-any-password-just-keep-submitting-it/[/url]

[LEFT][SIZE=15px][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#263034]The affected versions …[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/LEFT][LEFT][SIZE=15px][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#263034], include those provided with the following Linux distributions: Ubuntu Linux 64-bit (10.04, 10.10, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04 ), OpenSuSE 12.1 64-bit MySQL 5.5.23-log, Fedora 16 64-bit, and Arch Linux. Official builds of MariaDB and MySQL are not vulnerable.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/LEFT]

[chad-bisd]

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.41, for debian-linux-gnu (i486) using readline 6.1

[CODE] dpkg --get-selections | grep [m]ysql*
libdbd-mysql-perl install
libmysqlclient16 install
mysql-client install
mysql-client-5.1 install
mysql-client-core-5.1 install
mysql-common install
mysql-server install
mysql-server-5.1 install
mysql-server-core-5.1 install
php5-mysql install
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I could not connect using the root account and a bad password out of 51,152 attempts using a php script.