Debian Security Advisory
DSA-647-1 mysql -- insecure temporary files
- Date Reported:
- 19 Jan 2005
- Affected Packages:
- mysql
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0004.
- More information:
-
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a temporary file vulnerability in the mysqlaccess script of MySQL that could allow an unprivileged user to let root overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack and could also could unveil the contents of a temporary file which might contain sensitive information.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.23.49-8.9.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.23-3 of mysql-dfsg and in version 4.1.8a-6 of mysql-dfsg-4.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your mysql packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql_3.23.49-8.9.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql_3.23.49-8.9.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql_3.23.49.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql_3.23.49-8.9.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-common_3.23.49-8.9_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-doc_3.23.49-8.5_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-doc_3.23.49-8.5_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10_3.23.49-8.9_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10-dev_3.23.49-8.9_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-client_3.23.49-8.9_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-server_3.23.49-8.9_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10-dev_3.23.49-8.9_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10_3.23.49-8.9_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10-dev_3.23.49-8.9_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-client_3.23.49-8.9_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-server_3.23.49-8.9_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10-dev_3.23.49-8.9_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10_3.23.49-8.9_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10-dev_3.23.49-8.9_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-client_3.23.49-8.9_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-server_3.23.49-8.9_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10-dev_3.23.49-8.9_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10_3.23.49-8.9_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10-dev_3.23.49-8.9_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-client_3.23.49-8.9_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-server_3.23.49-8.9_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10-dev_3.23.49-8.9_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10_3.23.49-8.9_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10-dev_3.23.49-8.9_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-client_3.23.49-8.9_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-server_3.23.49-8.9_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10-dev_3.23.49-8.9_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10_3.23.49-8.9_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10-dev_3.23.49-8.9_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-client_3.23.49-8.9_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-server_3.23.49-8.9_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10-dev_3.23.49-8.9_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10_3.23.49-8.9_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10-dev_3.23.49-8.9_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-client_3.23.49-8.9_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-server_3.23.49-8.9_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10-dev_3.23.49-8.9_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10_3.23.49-8.9_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10-dev_3.23.49-8.9_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-client_3.23.49-8.9_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-server_3.23.49-8.9_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10-dev_3.23.49-8.9_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10_3.23.49-8.9_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10-dev_3.23.49-8.9_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-client_3.23.49-8.9_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-server_3.23.49-8.9_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10-dev_3.23.49-8.9_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10_3.23.49-8.9_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10-dev_3.23.49-8.9_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-client_3.23.49-8.9_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-server_3.23.49-8.9_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10-dev_3.23.49-8.9_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10_3.23.49-8.9_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10-dev_3.23.49-8.9_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-client_3.23.49-8.9_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/mysql-server_3.23.49-8.9_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mysql/libmysqlclient10-dev_3.23.49-8.9_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.