CVE-2008-4097 SUSE CVE security@suse.de SUSE Security Team SUSE CVE-2008-4097 Interim 1 3 2021-06-09T08:46:17Z current 2021-05-30T12:43:54Z 2021-06-09T08:46:17Z cve-database/bin/generate-cvrf-cve.pl 2020-12-27T01:00:00Z CVE-2008-4097 MySQL 5.0.51a 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 associated with symlinks within pathnames for subdirectories of the MySQL home data directory, which are followed when tables are created in the future. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2079. The CVRF data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0). https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html E-Mail link for SUSE-SR:2008:025 https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00002.html E-Mail link for SUSE-SR:2009:001 https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/ SUSE Security Ratings MySQL 5.0.51a 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 associated with symlinks within pathnames for subdirectories of the MySQL home data directory, which are followed when tables are created in the future. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2079. CVE-2008-4097 moderate 4.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P