PublicDate: 2007-12-10 19:46:00 UTC
Candidate: CVE-2007-5969
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5969
 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1155.html
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-559-1
Description:
 MySQL Community Server 5.0.x before 5.0.51, Enterprise Server 5.0.x before
 5.0.52, Server 5.1.x before 5.1.23, and Server 6.0.x before 6.0.4, when a
 table relies on symlinks created through explicit DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX
 DIRECTORY options, allows remote authenticated users to overwrite system
 table information and gain privileges via a RENAME TABLE statement that
 changes the symlink to point to an existing file.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS: 
upstream_mysql-dfsg-5.0: released (5.0.45-4)
dapper_mysql-dfsg-5.0: released (5.0.22-0ubuntu6.06.6)
edgy_mysql-dfsg-5.0: released (5.0.24a-9ubuntu2.2)
feisty_mysql-dfsg-5.0: released (5.0.38-0ubuntu1.2)
gutsy_mysql-dfsg-5.0: released (5.0.45-1ubuntu3.1)
devel_mysql-dfsg-5.0: not-affected (5.0.51a-1ubuntu1)