CVE-2012-4452

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-4452
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-10-09 23:55:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:11:00 UTC
DescriptionMySQL 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-264

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Oracle Mysql All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
MySQL MyISAM Table Symbolic Link CVE-2012-4452 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
860808 – (CVE-2012-4452) CVE-2012-4452 mysql: regression of CVE-2009-4030 CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com
oss-security - CVE-2009-4030 regression in mysql MLIST www.openwall.com
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