Description
MySQL Community Server 5.0.x before 5.0.51, Enterprise Server 5.0.x before 5.0.52, Server 5.1.x before 5.1.23, and Server 6.0.x before 6.0.4, when a table relies on symlinks created through explicit DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY options, allows remote authenticated users to overwrite system table information and gain privileges via a RENAME TABLE statement that changes the symlink to point to an existing file.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28343 ↗
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-04.xml ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29706 ↗
- http://bugs.mysql.com/32111 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10509 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681 ↗
- http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-cs-5-0-51.html ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1451 ↗
- http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/news-4-1-24.html ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019060 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4142 ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/559-1/ ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486477/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1000/references ↗
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.428959 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0560/references ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26765 ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00467.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28040 ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1157.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28099 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28559 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32222 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27981 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4198 ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00475.html ↗
- http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-es-5-0-52.html ↗
- http://lists.mysql.com/announce/495 ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1155.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28108 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28025 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780 ↗
- http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?3%2C186931%2C186931 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28838 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28128 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:243 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28063 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html ↗
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html ↗
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216 ↗
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1999 ↗