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FreeBSD: VID-DC596A17-7A9E-11E6-B034-F0DEF167EEEA: Remote-Code-Execution vulnerability in mysql and its variants CVE 2016-6662

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FreeBSD: VID-DC596A17-7A9E-11E6-B034-F0DEF167EEEA: Remote-Code-Execution vulnerability in mysql and its variants CVE 2016-6662

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/12/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/24/2016
Modified
09/19/2017

Description

LegalHackers' reports:

RCE Bugs discovered in MySQL and its variants like MariaDB.

It works by manipulating my.cnf files and using --malloc-lib.

The bug seems fixed in MySQL 5.7.15 by Oracle

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-mysql55-client
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-mysql55-server
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-mysql56-client
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-mysql56-server
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-mysql57-client
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-mysql57-server

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