CVE-2007-5970 Information

Description

MySQL 5.1.x before 5.1.23 and 6.0.x before 6.0.4 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges on arbitrary tables via unspecified vectors involving use of table-level DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY options when creating a partitioned table with the same name as a table on which the user lacks privileges.

Reference

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=32091 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-23.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/news-6-0-4.html http://osvdb.org/42607 http://securitytracker.com/id?1019084 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0560/references https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38988