vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2016-6662: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 20, 2016
Added
Sep 21, 2016
Modified
Feb 4, 2022

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)

suse-upgrade-libmariadbd-develsuse-upgrade-libmariadbd19suse-upgrade-libmysql55client18suse-upgrade-libmysql55client18-32bitsuse-upgrade-libmysql55client18-x86suse-upgrade-libmysql55client_r18suse-upgrade-libmysql55client_r18-32bitsuse-upgrade-libmysql55client_r18-x86suse-upgrade-libmysqlclient-develsuse-upgrade-libmysqlclient18suse-upgrade-libmysqlclient18-32bitsuse-upgrade-libmysqlclient_r18suse-upgrade-libmysqlclient_r18-32bitsuse-upgrade-libmysqld-develsuse-upgrade-libmysqld18suse-upgrade-libmysqld19suse-upgrade-mariadbsuse-upgrade-mariadb-100-errormessagessuse-upgrade-mariadb-clientsuse-upgrade-mariadb-errormessagessuse-upgrade-mariadb-toolssuse-upgrade-mysqlsuse-upgrade-mysql-clientsuse-upgrade-mysql-tools
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