CVE-2008-2079 Privilege escalation in n/a
Medium 4.6
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2008-2079 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2008-2079 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 5 May 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-2079 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Canonical Ubuntu Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2079/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2079/index.md)
Local users can bypass privilege checks via crafted CREATE TABLE commands, leading to unauthorized access to future tables.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2008-2079?
CVE-2008-2079 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 5 May 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
MySQL 4.1.x before 4.1.24, 5.0.x before 5.0.60, 5.1.x before 5.1.24, and 6.0.x before 6.0.5 allows local users to bypass certain privilege checks by calling CREATE TABLE on a MyISAM table with modified (1) DATA DIRECTORY or (2) INDEX DIRECTORY arguments that are within the MySQL home data directory, which can point to tables that are created in the future.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-2079?
It affects 4 products.
Linux distribution packages (40)
httpd Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:2.0.63-2.el4s1.2 |
httpd-debuginfo Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:2.0.63-2.el4s1.2 |
httpd-devel Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:2.0.63-2.el4s1.2 |
httpd-manual Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:2.0.63-2.el4s1.2 |
mod_jk Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:1.2.26-1.el4s1.1 |
mod_jk-ap20 Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:1.2.26-1.el4s1.1 |
mod_jk-debuginfo Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:1.2.26-1.el4s1.1 |
mod_jk-manual Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:1.2.26-1.el4s1.1 |
mod_ssl Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 1:2.0.63-2.el4s1.2 |
mysql Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.0.50sp1a-2.el4s1.1 |
mysql-bench Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.0.50sp1a-2.el4s1.1 |
mysql-cluster Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.0.50sp1a-2.el4s1.1 |
mysql-connector-odbc Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:3.51.24r1071-1.el4s1.1 |
mysql-connector-odbc-debuginfo Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:3.51.24r1071-1.el4s1.1 |
mysql-debuginfo Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.0.50sp1a-2.el4s1.1 |
mysql-devel Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.0.50sp1a-2.el4s1.1 |
mysql-libs Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.0.50sp1a-2.el4s1.1 |
mysql-server Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.0.50sp1a-2.el4s1.1 |
mysql-test Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.0.50sp1a-2.el4s1.1 |
perl-DBD-MySQL Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:4.006-1.el4 |
perl-DBD-MySQL-debuginfo Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:4.006-1.el4 |
perl-DBI Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:1.604-1.el4s1 |
perl-DBI-debuginfo Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:1.604-1.el4s1 |
php Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.1.6-3.el4s1.9 |
php-bcmath Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.1.6-3.el4s1.9 |
php-cli Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.1.6-3.el4s1.9 |
php-common Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.1.6-3.el4s1.9 |
php-dba Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.1.6-3.el4s1.9 |
php-debuginfo Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.1.6-3.el4s1.9 |
php-devel Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.1.6-3.el4s1.9 |
php-gd Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.1.6-3.el4s1.9 |
php-imap Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.1.6-3.el4s1.9 |
php-ldap Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.1.6-3.el4s1.9 |
php-mbstring Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.1.6-3.el4s1.9 |
php-mysql Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.1.6-3.el4s1.9 |
php-ncurses Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.1.6-3.el4s1.9 |
php-odbc Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.1.6-3.el4s1.9 |
php-pdo Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.1.6-3.el4s1.9 |
php-pgsql Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.1.6-3.el4s1.9 |
php-snmp Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:1 | All versions | 0:5.1.6-3.el4s1.9 |
Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Mysql Mysql, Oracle Mysql.
How do I fix CVE-2008-2079?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2008-2079 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-2079 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Sources
Also known as DTSA-150-1, GHSA-789p-mwwq-w5cp, RHSA-2008:0510.