CVE-2008-4098

Description

From CVE.org

MySQL before 5.0.67 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 home data directory. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4097.

Statement

In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, issue CVE-2008-2079 was fixed without introducing CVE-2008-4098 in RHSA-2009:1289.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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CVSS v2 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score3.24.6N/A
Attack VectorLocalNetworkN/A
Access ComplexityLowHighN/A
AuthenticationSingleSingleN/A
Confidentiality ImpactPartialPartialN/A
Integrity ImpactPartialPartialN/A
Availability ImpactNonePartialN/A

Vector

Red Hat: AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

NVD: AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

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