{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2008-07-03T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "mysql: incomplete upstream fix for CVE-2008-2079",
    "id" : "454077",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454077"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "3.2",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "MySQL before 5.0.67 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 originally associated with pathnames without symlinks, and that can point to tables created at a future time at which a pathname is modified to contain a symlink to a subdirectory of the MySQL home data directory. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4097." ],
  "statement" : "In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, issue CVE-2008-2079 was fixed without introducing CVE-2008-4098 in RHSA-2009:1289.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2010-02-16T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2010:0110",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "mysql-0:4.1.22-2.el4_8.3"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4098\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4098" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-4098",
  "csaw" : false
}