vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2016-6664: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 13, 2016
Added
Feb 8, 2017
Modified
Feb 4, 2022

Description

mysqld_safe in Oracle MySQL through 5.5.51, 5.6.x through 5.6.32, and 5.7.x through 5.7.14; MariaDB; 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, when using file-based logging, allows local users with access to the mysql account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on error logs and possibly other files.

Solutions

suse-upgrade-libmariadbd-develsuse-upgrade-libmariadbd19suse-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-tools

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