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Bug 78558 - CAN-2005-0004 -- Mysqlaccess insecure temp file creation
Summary: CAN-2005-0004 -- Mysqlaccess insecure temp file creation
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 77805
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High major (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://lists.mysql.com/internals/20600
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Reported: 2005-01-18 12:15 UTC by John D
Modified: 2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
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Description John D 2005-01-18 12:15:19 UTC
Javier Fern
Comment 1 John D 2005-01-18 12:15:19 UTC
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a temporary file vulnerability in the mysqlaccess script of MySQL that could allow an unprivileged user to let root overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack and could also could unveil the contents of a temporary file which might contain sensitive information.

http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/ce109fd4-67f3-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html

VuXML from FreeBSD gives a nice chart of exactly what versions are affected.


Patch available at the lists.mysql.com URL.


Reproducible: Always
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Comment 2 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-01-18 12:29:53 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77805 ***