Upstream information
Description
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.NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Novell/SUSE information
Novell Bugzilla entries: 387746, 425079, 497546, 557669 SUSE Security Advisories:- SUSE-SA:2008:041, published Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:00:00 +0000
- SUSE-SR:2008:017, published Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000