National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-4227

Overview

MySQL before 5.0.25 and 5.1 before 5.1.12 evaluates arguments of suid routines in the security context of the routine's definer instead of the routine's caller, which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges through a routine that has been made available using GRANT EXECUTE.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (07/25/2008)

This issue did not affect the versions of MySQL as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4. Issue was addressed in MySQL packages as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0364.html

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Vulnerable software and versions

Configuration 1

OR

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.0.0

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.0:alpha

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.1

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.18

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.19

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.2

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.20

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.21

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.22.1.0.1

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.24

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.3

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.0.4

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.1.10

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.1.5

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.1.6

* cpe:/a:mysql:mysql:5.1.9

* Denotes Vulnerable Software

* Changes related to vulnerability configurations