Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53481
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-647-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'mysql' package(s) announced via the DSA-647-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'mysql' package(s) announced via the DSA-647-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena 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. Affected Software/OS: 'mysql' package(s) on Debian 3.0. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 4.6 CVSS Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-0004 BugTraq ID: 12277 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12277 Bugtraq: 20050118 [USN-63-1] MySQL client vulnerability (Google Search) http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110608297217224&w=2 Conectiva Linux advisory: CLA-2005:947 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000947 Debian Security Information: DSA-647 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-647 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:036 http://secunia.com/advisories/13867 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101864-1 XForce ISS Database: mysql-mysqlaccess-symlink(18922) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18922
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