The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.

Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=32167 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/news-4-1-25.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-cs-5-0-75.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-28.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/news-6-0-6.html http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480292#25 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/738f8f9e-d661-11dd-a765-0030843d3802.html

The following package is affected: mysql-server CVE-2008-2079 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. CVE-2008-4097 MySQL 5.0.51a 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 associated with symlinks within pathnames for subdirectories of the MySQL home data directory, which are followed when tables are created in the future. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2079. CVE-2008-4098 MySQL before 5.0.67 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 originally associated with pathnames without symlinks, and that can point to tables created at a future time at which a pathname is modified to contain a symlink to a subdirectory of the MySQL home data directory. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4097.