cve-2012-4452
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-10-09 23:00
Modified
2024-08-06 20:35
Severity ?
Summary
MySQL 5.0.88, and possibly other versions and platforms, 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 data home directory, related to incorrect calculation of the mysql_unpacked_real_data_home value. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2009-4030 regression, which was not omitted in other packages and versions such as MySQL 5.0.95 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0121.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55715
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860808
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0121.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55715
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860808
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