Upstream information
Description
MySQL 5.0.51a 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 associated with symlinks within pathnames for subdirectories of the MySQL home data directory, which are followed when tables are created in the future. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2079.NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Novell/SUSE information
Novell Bugzilla entry: 425079, 497546 SUSE Security Advisories:- SUSE-SR:2008:025, published Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:00:00 +0000
- SUSE-SR:2009:001, published Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:00:00 +0000
