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Bug 152344

Summary:	CAN-2005-0711 Insecure temporary file creation with CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	mysql	Assignee:	Tom Lane <tgl>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0	CC:	hhorak, security-response-team, tao
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	impact=important,public=20050311,source=vulnwatch,reported=20050311
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-03-28 18:41:23 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #150868 +++

Description of problem:
If an authenticated user has CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE privileges on any
existent database, a symlink attack is possible. 

Reported to vulnwatch.org by Stefano Di Paola on 11 Mar 2005

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mysql-4.1.7-5.RHEL4.1

How reproducible:
Requires some luck to guess name that will be used for temp file,
but unfortunately that's fairly predictable.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  See vulnwatch report.

Additional info:
This is fixed in 4.1.10a, which we should upgrade to anyway as it
contains numerous other bug fixes.

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-03-28 18:47:14 UTC

This issue affects RHEL3 and RHEL2.1 (mysql3)

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-03-28 18:52:17 UTC

*** Bug 151681 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2005-03-28 18:53:14 UTC

*** Bug 151734 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Josh Bressers 2005-03-28 19:44:51 UTC

An advisory 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-2005-334.html

Comment 5 foobarra 2005-03-30 13:36:48 UTC

The errata release is incomplete for RHEL-3, and does not include a patched
mysql-server package...

Comment 6 Mark J. Cox 2005-03-30 13:45:33 UTC

On RHEL3, mysql-server is part of "Extras", see bug 152437 for tracking.