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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2016-6662) (Multiple Advisories): mariadb security and bug fix update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2016-6662) (Multiple Advisories): mariadb security and bug fix update

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/20/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/09/2016
Modified
09/16/2019

Description

Oracle MySQL through 5.5.52, 5.6.x through 5.6.33, and 5.7.x through 5.7.15; MariaDB before 5.5.51, 10.0.x before 10.0.27, and 10.1.x before 10.1.17; and Percona Server before 5.5.51-38.1, 5.6.x before 5.6.32-78.0, and 5.7.x before 5.7.14-7 allow local users to create arbitrary configurations and bypass certain protection mechanisms by setting general_log_file to a my.cnf configuration. NOTE: this can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code with root privileges by setting malloc_lib. NOTE: the affected MySQL version information is from Oracle's October 2016 CPU. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that the issue was silently patched in MySQL 5.5.52, 5.6.33, and 5.7.15.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mariadb
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mariadb-bench
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mariadb-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mariadb-embedded
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mariadb-embedded-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mariadb-libs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mariadb-server
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mariadb-test
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mysql
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mysql-bench
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mysql-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mysql-embedded
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mysql-embedded-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mysql-libs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mysql-server
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mysql-test

References

  • ELSA-2017-2192
  • DLA-624-1
  • DSA-3666
  • CVE-2016-6662
  • USN-3078-1

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