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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-6663: Security patch for mysql51 (ALAS-2017-800)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-6663: Security patch for mysql51 (ALAS-2017-800)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/13/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/23/2017
Modified
02/02/2018

Description

Race condition in Oracle MySQL before 5.5.52, 5.6.x before 5.6.33, 5.7.x before 5.7.15, and 8.x before 8.0.1; MariaDB before 5.5.52, 10.0.x before 10.0.28, and 10.1.x before 10.1.18; Percona Server before 5.5.51-38.2, 5.6.x before 5.6.32-78-1, and 5.7.x before 5.7.14-8; and Percona XtraDB Cluster before 5.5.41-37.0, 5.6.x before 5.6.32-25.17, and 5.7.x before 5.7.14-26.17 allows local users with certain permissions to gain privileges by leveraging use of my_copystat by REPAIR TABLE to repair a MyISAM table.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-mysql51

References

  • RHSA-2016:2130
  • RHSA-2016:2131
  • RHSA-2016:2595
  • RHSA-2016:2749
  • RHSA-2016:2927
  • RHSA-2016:2928
  • RHSA-2017:0184
  • ALAS-2017-800
  • 92911
  • 93614
  • CVE-2016-6663
  • DSA-3711
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