CVE-2007-5969

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/28343
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-04.xml
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29706
• http://bugs.mysql.com/32111
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10509
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681
• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-cs-5-0-51.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1451
• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/news-4-1-24.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019060
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4142
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/559-1/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486477/100/0/threaded
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1000/references
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.428959
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0560/references
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26765
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00467.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28040
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1157.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28099
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28559
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32222
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27981
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4198
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00475.html
• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-es-5-0-52.html
• http://lists.mysql.com/announce/495
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1155.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28108
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28025
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780
• http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?3%2C186931%2C186931
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28838
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28128
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:243
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28063
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1999

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