Sergei Golubchik

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Sergei Golubchik

Biography:

Sergei Golubchik started on modifying MySQL source code in 1998, and has continued doing it as a MySQL AB employee since 2000. He is currently the VP Architecture at Monty Program Ab on MariaDB and he is responsible for code reviews, replies to bug reports, security reports, and the FULLTEXT search implementation. He works and lives in Germany, near Cologne, with his wife and two kids.

Facts

He is the primary architect of the MySQL/MariaDB plugin API and the author of the “MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development” book.

Found a major flaw in MariaDB and MySQL wherein if an attacker knows the correct username (usually the ubiquitous "root"), he can easily connect using a random password by repeating connection attempts. This issue got assigned an id CVE-2012-2122.

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