Security Advisory

CVE-2007-5969

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2007-12-10 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 15:47:00
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

MySQL Community Server 5.0.x before 5.0.51, Enterprise Server 5.0.x before 5.0.52, Server 5.1.x before 5.1.23, and Server 6.0.x before 6.0.4, when a table relies on symlinks created through explicit DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY options, allows remote authenticated users to overwrite system table information and gain privileges via a RENAME TABLE statement that changes the symlink to point to an existing file.