CVE-2012-4452
MySQL 5.0.88, and possibly other versions and platforms, 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 originally associated with pathnames without symlinks, and that can point to tables created at a future time at which a pathname is modified to contain a symlink to a subdirectory of the MySQL data home directory, related to incorrect calculation of the mysql_unpacked_real_data_home value. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2009-4030 regression, which was not omitted in other packages and versions such as MySQL 5.0.95 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 2.1 Low
- Status
- Modified - secalert@redhat.com
- Published
- 2012-10-09
- Last modified
- 2024-08-06
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Affected products
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0121.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55715
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860808
