CVE-2008-7247

2009-11-3000:00:00

ubuntu.com

6 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.006 Low

EPSS

Percentile

78.0%

JSON

sql/sql_table.cc in MySQL 5.0.x through 5.0.88, 5.1.x through 5.1.41, and
6.0 before 6.0.9-alpha, when the data home directory contains a symlink to
a different filesystem, allows remote authenticated users to bypass
intended access restrictions by calling CREATE TABLE with a (1) DATA
DIRECTORY or (2) INDEX DIRECTORY argument referring to a subdirectory that
requires following this symlink.

Bugs

Notes

Author	Note
mdeslaur	This isn’t fixed in 5.1.42, as of 2010-01-20 upstream hasn’t patched 5.1.x per upstream bug, don’t think it’s a security issue code is different in 5.0.x and analysis done here: http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126097698329834&w=2 says 5.0.x is not affected.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu10.10noarchmysql-5.1< 5.1.41-3ubuntu7UNKNOWN
ubuntu9.10noarchmysql-dfsg-5.1< 5.1.37-1ubuntu5.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu10.04noarchmysql-dfsg-5.1< 5.1.41-3ubuntu7UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	10.10	noarch	mysql-5.1	< 5.1.41-3ubuntu7	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	9.10	noarch	mysql-dfsg-5.1	< 5.1.37-1ubuntu5.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	10.04	noarch	mysql-dfsg-5.1	< 5.1.41-3ubuntu7	UNKNOWN