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USN-950-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

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USN-950-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/07/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in MySQL 5.0 through 5.0.91 and 5.1 before 5.1.47 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended table grants to read field definitions of arbitrary tables, and on 5.1 to read or delete content of arbitrary tables, via a .. (dot dot) in a table name.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-mysql-server-5-0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-mysql-server-5-1

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