{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2008-03-13T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "mysql: privilege escalation via DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY directives",
    "id" : "445222",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445222"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "4.9",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "MySQL 4.1.x before 4.1.24, 5.0.x before 5.0.60, 5.1.x before 5.1.24, and 6.0.x before 6.0.5 allows local users to bypass certain privilege checks by calling CREATE TABLE on a MyISAM table with modified (1) DATA DIRECTORY or (2) INDEX DIRECTORY arguments that are within the MySQL home data directory, which can point to tables that are created in the future." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect MySQL as supplied with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2008-07-24T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0768",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "mysql-0:4.1.22-2.el4"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2009-09-02T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1289",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "mysql-0:5.0.77-3.el5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4",
    "release_date" : "2008-07-02T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0510",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_application_stack:1",
    "package" : "httpd-0:2.0.63-2.el4s1.2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4",
    "release_date" : "2008-07-02T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0510",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_application_stack:1",
    "package" : "mod_jk-0:1.2.26-1.el4s1.1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4",
    "release_date" : "2008-07-02T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0510",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_application_stack:1",
    "package" : "mysql-0:5.0.50sp1a-2.el4s1.1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4",
    "release_date" : "2008-07-02T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0510",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_application_stack:1",
    "package" : "mysql-connector-odbc-0:3.51.24r1071-1.el4s1.1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4",
    "release_date" : "2008-07-02T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0510",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_application_stack:1",
    "package" : "perl-DBD-MySQL-0:4.006-1.el4"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4",
    "release_date" : "2008-07-02T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0510",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_application_stack:1",
    "package" : "perl-DBI-0:1.604-1.el4s1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4",
    "release_date" : "2008-07-02T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0510",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_application_stack:1",
    "package" : "php-0:5.1.6-3.el4s1.9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4",
    "release_date" : "2008-07-02T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0510",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_application_stack:1",
    "package" : "postgresqlclient7-0:7.4.19-1.el4s1.1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4",
    "release_date" : "2008-07-02T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0510",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_application_stack:1",
    "package" : "postgresql-jdbc-0:8.1.412-1jpp.el4s1.1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4",
    "release_date" : "2008-07-02T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0510",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_application_stack:1",
    "package" : "unixODBC-0:2.2.12-6.el4s1.1"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2079\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2079" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-2079",
  "csaw" : false
}