CVE-2008-4097 (GCVE-0-2008-4097)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-09-17 18:06 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:00
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Summary
MySQL 5.0.51a 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 associated with symlinks within pathnames for subdirectories of the MySQL home data directory, which are followed when tables are created in the future. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2079.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-671-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/32769 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/0… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/16/3 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://secunia.com/advisories/32759 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=… x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2008-09-09 00:00
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