fkie_cve-2008-2079
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2008-05-05 16:20
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
MySQL 4.1.x before 4.1.24, 5.0.x before 5.0.60, 5.1.x before 5.1.24, and 6.0.x before 6.0.5 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 within the MySQL home data directory, which can point to tables that are created in the future.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| mysql | mysql | * | |
| mysql | mysql | * | |
| mysql | mysql | * | |
| oracle | mysql | * | |
| debian | debian_linux | 4.0 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 6.06 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 7.10 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 8.04 |
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