Bug 203432 - CVE-2006-4227 mysql improper suid argument evaluation
Summary: CVE-2006-4227 mysql improper suid argument evaluation
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mysql
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tom Lane
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
Whiteboard: reported=20060818,source=cve,public=2...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-08-21 20:57 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2013-07-03 03:10 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 5.0.27-1.fc5
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2006-11-28 02:26:35 UTC
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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
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