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GHSA-RXRR-C7MJ-HQ68

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-02 00:06 – Updated: 2022-05-02 00:06

Details

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.

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  "modified": "2022-05-02T00:06:47Z",
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CVE-2008-4097 (GCVE-0-2008-4097)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-09-17 18:06 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:00

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat CNA under the redhat root

CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1111 records in the last 180 days details

References

9 references

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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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