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CVE-2008-2079

Published: May 05, 2008 | Modified: Apr 09, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
4.9 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2079
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

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.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
MysqlMysql4.1.0 (including)4.1.24 (excluding)
MysqlMysql5.0.0 (including)5.0.60 (excluding)
MysqlMysql5.1.0 (including)5.1.24 (excluding)
MysqlOracle6.0.0 (including)6.0.5 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4RedHatmysql-0:4.1.22-2.el4*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5RedHatmysql-0:5.0.77-3.el5*
Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4RedHathttpd-0:2.0.63-2.el4s1.2*
Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4RedHatmod_jk-0:1.2.26-1.el4s1.1*
Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4RedHatmysql-0:5.0.50sp1a-2.el4s1.1*
Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4RedHatmysql-connector-odbc-0:3.51.24r1071-1.el4s1.1*
Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4RedHatperl-DBD-MySQL-0:4.006-1.el4*
Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4RedHatperl-DBI-0:1.604-1.el4s1*
Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4RedHatphp-0:5.1.6-3.el4s1.9*
Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4RedHatpostgresqlclient7-0:7.4.19-1.el4s1.1*
Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4RedHatpostgresql-jdbc-0:8.1.412-1jpp.el4s1.1*
Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4RedHatunixODBC-0:2.2.12-6.el4s1.1*
Mysql-dfsg-5.0Ubuntudapper*
Mysql-dfsg-5.0Ubuntufeisty*
Mysql-dfsg-5.0Ubuntugutsy*
Mysql-dfsg-5.0Ubuntuhardy*
Mysql-dfsg-5.0Ubuntuupstream*

References

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