Bug 445222 (CVE-2008-2079)

Summary:	CVE-2008-2079 mysql: privilege escalation via DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY directives
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dbhole, kreilly, kvolny, tgl
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Bug Depends On:	445321, 445804, 445805, 445806, 445856, 445857, 448486, 448487
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-05-05 15:31:42 UTC

MySQL 4.1.24, 5.0.60, 5.1.24, and 6.0.5 fixes an issue allowing an authenticated
attacker to gain privileges to tables that will be created by some other
database user in future using MyISAM storage engine, if an attacker can predict
names of such tables.

Attacker can create a table using DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY directives causing data
and index files (.MYD/.MYI) to be created in some other directory writable by
mysql server, including directories used to store table files of other users'
databases.  If victim later creates table with the same name, attacker's data
and index files are overwritten by victim's files, but access privileges are not
revoked.  Attacker gains access to newly created victim's table.

References:
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=32167
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/news-4-1-24.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-es-5-0-60.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-24.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/news-6-0-5.html

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2008-05-05 15:34:40 UTC

Affected versions shipped in:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5
- Red Hat Applications Stack v1, v2
- Fedora 7, 8, 9

Not affected versions shipped in:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3 (DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY directives are not
  supported)

Comment 13 Tomas Hoger 2008-07-04 13:14:49 UTC

It was discovered that the upstream fix for this issue is incomplete.  See bug
#454077 for details.

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 09:45:23 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:1289 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1289.html

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 12:09:57 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:1289 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1289.html

Comment 16 Tomas Hoger 2010-01-08 14:21:44 UTC

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2008-2079.html