Detections
Analytics
CVE-2016-6664
high
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.
References
https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/11/02/percona-responds-to-cve-2016-6663-and-cve-2016-6664/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-18
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0574
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0279
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2192
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93612
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539695/100/0/threaded
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3770
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Nov/4