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Gentoo: GLSA-200501-33 Normal: MySQL Insecure Temporary File Creation

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Calendar Grey January 23, 2005
Scroller Gentoo
PostgreSQL exposed to directory traversal vulnerabilities on Fedora. Immediate patching advised to secure sensitive data access.
MySQL is vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200501-33 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: MySQL: Insecure temporary file creation Date: January 23, 2005 Bugs: #77805 ID: 200501-33

Synopsis ======= MySQL is vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files.
Background ========= MySQL is a fast, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-db/mysql < 4.0.22-r2 >= 4.0.22-r2
========== Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered that the 'mysqlaccess' script creates temporary files in world-writeable directories with p...

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