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TITLE:
MySQL System Table Information Overwrite Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27981

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27981/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Manipulation of data

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
MySQL 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/8355/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in MySQL, which can be exploited by
malicious, local users to manipulate certain data.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when renaming a table
with explicit DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY options and can be
exploited to overwrite system table information by replacing files
pointed to by certain symbolic links.

The vulnerability is reported in MySQL Community Server prior to
version 5.0.51.

SOLUTION:
Update to version  5.0.51.
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#downloads

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-cs-5-0-51.html

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