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Ensure ‘allow-suspicious-udfs’ Is Set to ‘FALSE’ – @SYSCONFDIR@/my.cnf passed

Details

This option prevents attaching arbitrary shared library functions as user-defined functions by checking for at least one corresponding method named _init, _deinit, _reset, _clear, or _add.

Solution

Perform the following to establish the recommended state:
– Remove –allow-suspicious-udfs from the mysqld start up command line.
– Remove allow-suspicious-udfs from the MySQL option file.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

Source

Updated on July 16, 2022
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