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CVE-2008-4098

N/A

Published: September 17, 2008 at 06:06 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:57 PM UTC

4 products affected across 4 vendorsDebian LinuxUbuntu LinuxMySQL Server

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 2%

Description

MySQL before 5.0.67 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 home data directory. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4097.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Ubuntu Linux · Canonicalrubygems

95%

6.06 7.10 8.04 8.10 9.04 9.10

Debian Linux · Debiandrupal

95%

95%

5.0.0 5.0.1 5.0.10 5.0.15 5.0.16 5.0.17 5.0.2 5.0.20 5.0.24 5.0.3 5.0.30 5.0.36 5.0.4 5.0.44 5.0.5 5.0.54 5.0.56 5.0.60 5.0.66

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (18)

x_refsource_CONFIRMx_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480292#25

x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=32167

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIANot Applicable

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/32578

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIANot Applicable

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/32759

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIANot Applicable

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/32769

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIANot Applicable

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/38517

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-897-1

CVSS

4.6MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: PARTIAL
Integrity: PARTIAL
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-59

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