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MySQL System Table Information Overwrite Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA27981
Release Date: 2007-12-10
Last Update: 2008-01-11
Popularity: 10,984 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Manipulation of data
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:MySQL 4.x
MySQL 5.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in MySQL, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to manipulate certain data.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when renaming a table with explicit DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY options and can be exploited to overwrite system table information by replacing files pointed to by certain symbolic links.

The vulnerability is reported in MySQL Community Server prior to version 5.0.51 and MySQL prior to 4.1.24.

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