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Re: CVE request: MySQL incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2079

From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:53:40 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Tomas Hoger wrote:

Devin Carraway of Debian noticed, that the upstream fix can be defeated
by local users via directory symlinks:

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


Use CVE-2008-4097

Which is also possible to defeat, as described by Devin in the upstream
bug report related to the original issue:

  http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=32167
  comment dated with "[18 Jul 9:43]"


Use CVE-2008-4098

- Steve

Current thread:

CVE request: MySQL empty bit-string literal server crash Robert Buchholz (Sep 09)
- Re: CVE request: MySQL empty bit-string literal server crash Steven M. Christey (Sep 09)
- Re: CVE request: MySQL incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2079 Tomas Hoger (Sep 09)
  - Re: CVE request: MySQL incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2079 Steven M. Christey (Sep 15)