MySQL ALTER TABLE Function Lets Remote Authenticated Users Obtain Potentially Sensitive Information
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1018071
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1018071
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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-2693
(Links to External Site)
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Date: May 16 2007
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Impact: Disclosure of user information
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Fix Available: Yes
Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): prior to 5.1.18
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Description: A vulnerability was reported in MySQL. A remote authenticated user can obtain potentially sensitive information.
A remote authenticated user without SELECT privileges can invoke an ALTER TABLE statement to obtain potentially sensitive information from partitioned tables.
Peter Gulutzan reported this vulnerability.
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Impact: A remote user can obtain potentially sensitive information from partitioned tables.
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Solution: The vendor has issued a fixed version (5.1.18).
The MySQL advisory is available at:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-18.html
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Vendor URL: dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-18.html (Links to External Site)
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Cause: Access control error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)
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Message History:
None.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 00:17:26 -0400
Subject: MySQL
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CVE-2007-2693
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-18.html
> Security fix: A user with only the ALTER privilege on a partitioned table could
> obtain information about the table that should require the SELECT privilege.
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=23675
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