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Or rephrased, this is an attack on a vulnerable MySQL client by a malicious MySQL server, rather than a more typical “client attacks server” threat.

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It sounds similar to the recently discussed scp vulnerability [1] where a malicious SSH server could drop files onto the client.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18909289

"Server attacks client" is pretty common with web browsers. Probably more common than the other way around. Much less common with Database clients of course.

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