CVE-2007-5969 Information

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.

Reference

http://bugs.mysql.com/32111 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/news-4-1-24.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-cs-5-0-51.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-es-5-0-52.html http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?3186931186931 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html http://lists.mysql.com/announce/495 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html http://secunia.com/advisories/27981 http://secunia.com/advisories/28025 http://secunia.com/advisories/28040 http://secunia.com/advisories/28063 http://secunia.com/advisories/28099 http://secunia.com/advisories/28108 http://secunia.com/advisories/28128 http://secunia.com/advisories/28343 http://secunia.com/advisories/28559 http://secunia.com/advisories/28838 http://secunia.com/advisories/29706 http://secunia.com/advisories/32222 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-04.xml http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.428959 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1451 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:243 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1155.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1157.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486477/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26765 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019060 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4142 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4198 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0560/references http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1000/references http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1999 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10509 https://usn.ubuntu.com/559-1/ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00467.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00475.html