DSA-647-1 mysql -- insecure temporary files

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.