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MySQL: privilege escalation

Package(s):MySQL CVE #(s):CVE-2007-3781 CVE-2007-5969
Created:December 11, 2007 Updated:May 21, 2008
Description: MySQL Community Server before 5.0.51, 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. (CVE-2007-5969)

MySQL Community Server before 5.0.45 does not require privileges such as SELECT for the source table in a CREATE TABLE LIKE statement, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information such as the table structure. (CVE-2007-3781)

Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0364-01 2008-05-21
Gentoo 200804-04 2008-04-06
SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:003 2008-02-07
rPath rPSA-2008-0018-1 2008-01-17
Debian DSA-1451-1 2008-01-06
Ubuntu USN-559-1 2007-12-21
Red Hat RHSA-2007:1157-01 2007-12-19
Fedora FEDORA-2007-4471 2007-12-15
Fedora FEDORA-2007-4465 2007-12-15
Red Hat RHSA-2007:1155-01 2007-12-18
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:243 2007-12-10

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