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CVE-2016-6664

Published: 13 December 2016

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
This is a dupe of CVE-2016-5617

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.0

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
mariadb-10.0
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream
Released (10.0.29)
precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

xenial
Released (10.0.29-0ubuntu0.16.04.1)
yakkety
Released (10.0.29-0ubuntu0.16.10.1)
mysql-5.5
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream
Released (5.5.52)
precise
Released (5.5.52-0ubuntu0.12.04.1)
trusty
Released (5.5.52-0ubuntu0.14.04.1)
vivid Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

mysql-5.6
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream
Released (5.6.33)
precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected [5.6.33-0ubuntu0.14.04.1])
xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

mysql-5.7
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream
Released (5.7.15)
precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

xenial Not vulnerable
(5.7.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.1)
yakkety Not vulnerable
(5.7.15-0ubuntu2)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.0
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H