medium
4.6
CWE
59
Advisory Published
CVE Published
Updated

CVE-2008-4098

First published: Thu Jul 03 2008(Updated: )

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.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
redhat/mysql<0:4.1.22-2.el4_8.3
0:4.1.22-2.el4_8.3
Ubuntu Linux=6.06
Ubuntu Linux=7.10
Ubuntu Linux=8.04
Ubuntu Linux=8.10
Ubuntu Linux=9.04
Ubuntu Linux=9.10
Debian Debian Linux=5.0
MySQL Server=5.0.0
MySQL Server=5.0.1
MySQL Server=5.0.2
MySQL Server=5.0.3
MySQL Server=5.0.4
MySQL Server=5.0.5
MySQL Server=5.0.10
MySQL Server=5.0.15
MySQL Server=5.0.16
MySQL Server=5.0.17
MySQL Server=5.0.20
MySQL Server=5.0.24
MySQL Server=5.0.30
MySQL Server=5.0.36
MySQL Server=5.0.44
MySQL Server=5.0.54
MySQL Server=5.0.56
MySQL Server=5.0.60
MySQL Server=5.0.66
MySQL=5.0.23
MySQL=5.0.25
MySQL=5.0.26
MySQL=5.0.28
MySQL=5.0.30-sp1
MySQL=5.0.32
MySQL=5.0.34
MySQL=5.0.36-sp1
MySQL=5.0.38
MySQL=5.0.40
MySQL=5.0.41
MySQL=5.0.42
MySQL=5.0.44-sp1
MySQL=5.0.45
MySQL=5.0.46
MySQL=5.0.48
MySQL=5.0.50
MySQL=5.0.50-sp1
MySQL=5.0.51
MySQL=5.0.52
MySQL=5.0.56-sp1
MySQL=5.0.58
MySQL=5.0.60-sp1
MySQL=5.0.62
MySQL=5.0.64
MySQL=5.0.66-sp1

Remedy

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=32167

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