database.
If a user has a right to update anything in the current database then the
access was granted and further checks of access rights for underlying tables
wasn't done correctly. The check is done before a view is opened and thus no
check of access rights for underlying tables can be carried out.
This allows a user to update through a view a table from another database for
which he hasn't enough rights.
Now the mysql_update() and the mysql_test_update() functions are forces
re-checking of access rights after a view is opened.
The problem was that THD::db_access variable was not restored after
database switch in stored-routine-execution code.
The fix is to restore THD::db_access in this case.
Unfortunately, this fix requires additional changes,
because in prepare_schema_table(), called on the parsing stage, we checked
privileges. That was wrong according to our design, but this flaw haven't
struck so far, because it was masked. All privilege checkings must be
done on the execution stage in order to be compatible with prepared statements
and stored routines. So, this patch also contains patch for
prepare_schema_table(), which moves the checkings to the execution phase.
with other alterations causes lost tables
Using RENAME clause combined with other clauses of ALTER TABLE led to
data loss (the data was there but not accessible). This could happen if the
changes do not change the table much. Adding and droppping of fields and
indices was safe. Renaming a column with MODIFY or CHANGE was unsafe operation,
if the actual column didn't change (changing from int to int, which is a noop)
Depending on the storage engine (SE) the behavior is different:
1)MyISAM/MEMORY - the ALTER TABLE statement completes
without any error but next SELECT against the new table fails.
2)InnoDB (and every other transactional table) - The ALTER TABLE statement
fails. There are the the following files in the db dir -
`new_table_name.frm` and a temporary table's frm. If the SE is file
based, then the data and index files will be present but with the old
names. What happens is that for InnoDB the table is not renamed in the
internal DDIC.
Fixed by adding additional call to mysql_rename_table() method, which should
not include FRM file rename, because it has been already done during file
names juggling.
(Mostly in DBUG_PRINT() and unused arguments)
Fixed bug in query cache when used with traceing (--with-debug)
Fixed memory leak in mysqldump
Removed warnings from mysqltest scripts (replaced -- with #)
User name (host name) has limit on length. The server code relies on these
limits when storing the names. The problem was that sometimes these limits
were not checked properly, so that could lead to buffer overflow.
The fix is to check length of user/host name in parser and if string is too
long, throw an error.
User name (host name) has limit on length. The server code relies on these
limits when storing the names. The problem was that sometimes these limits
were not checked properly, so that could lead to buffer overflow.
The fix is to check length of user/host name in parser and if string is too
long, throw an error.
"A SELECT privilege on a view is required for SHOW CREATE VIEW and it will stay
that way because of compatibility reasons." (see #20136)
a test case to illustrate how the ACLs work in this case (and ensure they will continue
to do so in the future)
privileges
This problem is 4.1 specific. It doesn't affect 4.0 and was fixed
in 5.x before.
Having any mysql user who is allowed to issue multi table update
statement and any column/table grants, allows this user to update
any table on a server (mysql grant tables are not exception).
check_grant() accepts number of tables (in table list) to be checked
in 5-th param. While checking grants for multi table update, number
of tables must be 1. It must never be 0 (actually we have
DBUG_ASSERT(number > 0) in 5.x in grant_check() function).
The check for view security was lacking several points :
1. Check with the right set of permissions : for each table ref that
participates in a view there were the right credentials to use in it's
security_ctx member, but these weren't used for checking the credentials.
This makes hard enforcing the SQL SECURITY DEFINER|INVOKER property
consistently.
2. Because of the above the security checking for views was just ruled out
in explicit ways in several places.
3. The security was checked only for the columns of the tables that are
brought into the query from a view. So if there is no column reference
outside of the view definition it was not detecting the lack of access to
the tables in the view in SQL SECURITY INVOKER mode.
The fix below tries to fix the above 3 points.
- In function 'handle_grant_struct' when searching the memory structures for an
entry to modify, convert all entries here host.hostname is NULL to "" and compare that
with the host passed in argument "user_from".
- A user created with hostname "" is stored in "mysql.user" table as host="" but when loaded into
memory it'll be stored as host.hostname NULL. Specifiying "" as hostname means
that "any host" can connect. Thus is's correct to turn on allow_all_hosts
when such a user is found.
- Review and fix other places where host.hostname may be NULL.
