CVE-2008-4098 (GCVE-0-2008-4098)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-09-17 18:06 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:00
VLAI
Summary
MySQL before 5.0.67 allows local users to bypass certain privilege checks by calling CREATE TABLE on a MyISAM table with modified (1) DATA DIRECTORY or (2) INDEX DIRECTORY arguments that are originally associated with pathnames without symlinks, and that can point to tables created at a future time at which a pathname is modified to contain a symlink to a subdirectory of the MySQL home data directory. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4097.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1131 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/38517 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://secunia.com/advisories/32759 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1662 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-01… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=32167 x_refsource_CONFIRM
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Date Public
2008-09-09 00:00
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