CVE-2008-4098 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=48029225 http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=32167 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/32578 http://secunia.com/advisories/32759 http://secunia.com/advisories/32769 http://secunia.com/advisories/38517 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-897-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1662 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:094 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/09/20 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/16/3 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1067.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0110.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1397-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-671-1 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45649 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10591