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mysql: authentication bypass

Package(s):mysql CVE #(s):CVE-2012-4452
Created:January 14, 2013 Updated:January 17, 2013
Description: From the CVE entry:

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.

Alerts:
Oracle ELSA-2013-0121 2013-01-12
Scientific Linux SL-mysq-20130116 2013-01-16
CentOS CESA-2013:0121 2013-01-09

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