{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "secalert@redhat.com", "ID": "CVE-2012-4452", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "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." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "55715", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55715" }, { "name": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860808", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860808" }, { "name": "RHSA-2013:0121", "refsource": "REDHAT", "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0121.html" }, { "name": "[oss-security] 20120927 CVE-2009-4030 regression in mysql", "refsource": "MLIST", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/1" } ] } }