CVE-2008-2079

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

Per http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29106 and http://secunia.com/advisories/32222, this vulnerability is remotely exploitable.

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.

Per http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29106 and http://secunia.com/advisories/32222, this vulnerability is remotely exploitable.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 16 years ago

2008-05-05 16:20:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-12-17 15:25:00

Affected Software

MySQL MySQL

Oracle MySQL -

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0

4.0

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS (Long-Term Support)

6.06

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 7.10

7.10

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

8.04

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