National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-4226
Original release date:08/18/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
MySQL before 4.1.21, 5.0 before 5.0.25, and 5.1 before 5.1.12, when run on case-sensitive filesystems, allows remote authenticated users to create or access a database when the database name differs only in case from a database for which they have permissions.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
4.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification
Solution
Successful exploitation requires that MySQL runs on a system with a file system supporting case-sensitive file names.
This vulnerability is addresses in the following product releases:
MySQL, MySQL, 4.1.21
MySQL, MySQL, 5.0.25
MySQL, MySQL, 5.1.12 }
- Official Statement from Red Hat (09/19/2006)
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Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203426
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-072A
Name: TA07-072A
External Source: BID
Name: 19559
Type: Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-3306
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21506
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [commits] 20060504 bk commit into 4.1 tree (bar:1.2474)
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/news-5-0-25.html
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MISC
Name: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=17647
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: mysql-case-privilege-escalation(28448)
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2007:0152
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2007:0083
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2006:023
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:149
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-0930
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1169
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1016710
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24744
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24479
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22080
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21762
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21627
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2007-03-13
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:149
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214