Bug 203432

Summary: CVE-2006-4227 mysql improper suid argument evaluation
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: mysqlAssignee: Tom Lane <tgl>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 5CC: byte, hhorak
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Whiteboard: reported=20060818,source=cve,public=20060329,impact=moderate
Fixed In Version: 5.0.27-1.fc5 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Josh Bressers 2006-08-21 20:57:07 UTC
MySQL improperly evaluates the argument passed to suid in the context of the
routine's definer, not in the context of the caller.  This could possibly lead
to privilege escalation.

The upstream bug has more information:
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=18630