CVE-2007-5969

CVE-2007-5969

Published · Updated

8Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 14%
exploitation probability
14%top 3% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
MySQL Community Server 5.0.x before 5.0.51, Enterprise Server 5.0.x before 5.0.52, Server 5.1.x before 5.1.23, and Server 6.0.x before 6.0.4, 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.
Affected products
n/a · n/a
References
http://bugs.mysql.com/32111http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/news-4-1-24.htmlhttp://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-cs-5-0-51.htmlhttp://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-es-5-0-52.htmlhttp://forums.mysql.com/read.php?3%2C186931%2C186931http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.htmlhttp://lists.mysql.com/announce/495http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/27981http://secunia.com/advisories/28025http://secunia.com/advisories/28040http://secunia.com/advisories/28063