National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-2008
Original release date:07/13/2010
Last revised:01/19/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
MySQL before 5.1.48 allows remote authenticated users with alter database privileges to cause a denial of service (server crash and database loss) via an ALTER DATABASE command with a #mysql50# string followed by a . (dot), .. (dot dot), ../ (dot dot slash) or similar sequence, and an UPGRADE DATA DIRECTORY NAME command, which causes MySQL to move certain directories to the server data directory.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
6.8
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-1918
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-1017-1
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1024160
External Source: BID
Name: 41198
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2010:155
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 40762
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 40333
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11869
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2010-11135
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-48.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=53804
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11869
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5