Re: [Full-disclosure] [oss-security] Re: MySQL (Linux) Stack based buffer overrun PoC Zeroday

[king cope <isowarez.isowarez.isowarez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes you are way right.
Don't patch it!

2012/12/3 Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi, king cope!
>
> On Dec 02, king cope wrote:
>> Hi,
>> My opinion is that the FILE to admin privilege elevation should be
>> patched.  What is the reason to have FILE and ADMIN privileges
>> seperated when with this exploit FILE privileges equate to ALL ADMIN
>> privileges.
>> I understand that it's insecure to have FILE privileges attached to a
>> user.  But if this a configuration issue and not a vulnerability then
>> as stated above there must be something wrong with the privilege
>> management in this SQL server.
>
> You've missed that part of my reply:
>
>> > Additionally, MySQL (and MariaDB) provides a --secure-file-priv
>> > option that allows to restrict all FILE operations to a specific
>> > directory.
>
> Normally, if a DBA wants to grant FILE privilege to users, the server
> will have something like secure-file-priv=/tmp/mysql (for example)
> specified in the configuration file. This way any operation allowed by
> the FILE privilege (like SELECT ... OUTFILE) will only be able to access
> files under the /tmp/mysql/ path.
>
> Regards,
> Sergei
>

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