MySQL 5.0.88, and possibly other versions and platforms, allows local users to bypass certain privilege checks by calling CREATE TABLE on a MyISAM table with modified (1) DATA DIRECTORY or (2) INDEX DIRECTORY arguments that are originally associated with pathnames without symlinks, and that can point to tables created at a future time at which a pathname is modified to contain a symlink to a subdirectory of the MySQL data home directory, related to incorrect calculation of the mysql_unpacked_real_data_home value. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2009-4030 regression, which was not omitted in other packages and versions such as MySQL 5.0.95 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T20:35:09.953Z

Reserved: 2012-08-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2012-4452

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2012-10-09T23:55:05.237

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2012-4452

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2012-09-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-4452 - Bugzilla

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