CVE-2007-5969

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.

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.

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.

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.

These are all security issues fixed in the libmariadbd-devel-10.6.4-2.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

This update for mariadb104 fixes the following issues:

• Implement version 10.4 of MariaDB (jsc#PED-2455):
  • It is possible to use more than one authentication plugin for each user account.
  • The root user account is being created with the ability to use two authentication plugins.
  • All user accounts, passwords, and global privileges are now stored in the mysql.global_priv table.
  • Is being supported for User Password Expiry, which is not active by default.
  • Faster privilege checks for MariaDB setups with many user accounts or many database grants.
• Update mysql-systemd-helper to be aware of custom group (bsc#1200105)
• MariaDB is now support lz4 compression for 'INNODB'. (bsc#1186031)
• Add 'mysql-user.conf' file to enable systemd generating mysql user in containers. (bsc#1173028)
• Fixes an issue when MariaDB is ignoring the value of the parameter 'open_files_limit' in the global variables. (bsc#1180014)

This update for mariadb104 fixes the following issues:

• Implement version 10.4 of MariaDB (jsc#PED-2455):
  • It is possible to use more than one authentication plugin for each user account.
  • The root user account is being created with the ability to use two authentication plugins.
  • All user accounts, passwords, and global privileges are now stored in the mysql.global_priv table.
  • Is being supported for User Password Expiry, which is not active by default.
  • Faster privilege checks for MariaDB setups with many user accounts or many database grants.
• Update mysql-systemd-helper to be aware of custom group (bsc#1200105)
• MariaDB is now support lz4 compression for 'INNODB'. (bsc#1186031)
• Add 'mysql-user.conf' file to enable systemd generating mysql user in containers. (bsc#1173028)
• Fixes an issue when MariaDB is ignoring the value of the parameter 'open_files_limit' in the global variables. (bsc#1180014)