Bug 1386138 (CVE-2005-0004) - CVE-2005-0004 mysql: CVE-2005-0004 mysqlaccess creates/overwrite files on the system
Summary: CVE-2005-0004 mysql: CVE-2005-0004 mysqlaccess creates/overwrite files on the...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2005-0004
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1385047
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Reported: 2016-10-18 09:23 UTC by Cedric Buissart
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-10-18 09:25:43 UTC
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Description Cedric Buissart 2016-10-18 09:23:54 UTC 
CVE-2005-0004 allows an unprivileged local attacker to create/overwrite files on the machine with the privilege of the user running the mysqlaccess script (e.g.: usually a database administrator or root).
mysqlaccess uses a predictable file naming in /tmp to store temporary data. An attacker could create a symlink with a similar name, pointing elsewhere on the file system structure.

Upstream patch :
http://lists.mysql.com/internals/20600

mitre.org info on the CVE:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=can-2005-0004

Affected versions : MySQL 4.0.23 and earlier, 4.1.x before 4.1.10, 5.0.x before 5.0.3, and other versions including 3.x

Versions shipped in Red Hat are not affected, since they are either using the patched version of mysqlaccess, or are not shipping mysqlaccess script.
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