Bug 202246 (CVE-2006-4031)

Summary:	CVE-2006-4031 MySQL improper permission revocation
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Tom Lane <tgl>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	awiggins, byte, hhorak
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Description Josh Bressers 2006-08-11 19:19:20 UTC

MySQL improper permission revocation

If a user has been granted permissions to create a MERGE table, even
after permissions have been revoked from the parent table, the user
can access the data via the MERGE table.

More information including a patch can be found here:
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=15195

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2007-08-21 10:57:26 UTC

moving to security response parent bug

Comment 5 Red Hat Product Security 2008-07-25 07:51:14 UTC

This issue was addressed in:

Red Hat Application Stack:
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0083.html

Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0364.html
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0768.html