Bug 119442

Summary:	CAN-2004-0381 mysqlbug temporary file vulnerability
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	mysql	Assignee:	Tom Lane <tgl>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	3.0	CC:	hhorak, k.georgiou, redhat-bugzilla
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Description Mark J. Cox 2004-03-30 15:45:06 UTC

mysqlbug script has temporary file vulnerability (uses /tmp) which
could allow an attacker to use a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary
files as the person running mysqlbug.

Reported to bugtraq on Mar24th, minor issue to be fixed with next
mysql update.

Comment 1 Robert Scheck 2004-06-14 22:19:06 UTC

Mark, you only marked CAN-2004-0381 for this bug, but the vulnerability 
of CAN-2004-0388 is there, too.

Both CANs should be fixed with the patch from attachment #101129 [details]

Comment 2 Tom Lane 2004-06-15 19:31:01 UTC

*** Bug 125991 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Tom Lane 2004-06-15 19:32:08 UTC

*** Bug 125992 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Robert Scheck 2004-06-15 20:26:31 UTC

Sorry Tom, for making that additional unnecessary work (for me and for
you), but it seems so, that there are multiple/different views how a 
bug has to be marked in bugzilla for different distributions &  
versions, but okay...the onliest I would be happy, is to have those 2 
CANs fixed at all 4 currently supported distributions/versions at all 
needed architectures (RHEL 2.1, 3 and FC 1, 2) ;-)

Most of your colleagues assign for each affected distribution version 
a separate bug, so I followed this example - sorry again!

Comment 5 Mark J. Cox 2004-06-16 13:43:21 UTC

Reopening bug 125991; we usually do keep RHEL and FC separate; but not
split up the individual versions of RHEL/FC.

Comment 6 Tom Lane 2004-10-06 22:19:57 UTC

Fix is in mysql-3.23.58-2.2, slated for RHEL3 U4, and also in
3.23.58-11 and beyond for FC3.

Comment 7 Josh Bressers 2004-10-20 19:41:28 UTC

An errata has been issued which should help the problem 
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being 
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, 
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report 
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-569.html