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.
Published: 2016-09-20
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: 89.6% High
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-624-1 mysql-5.5 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3666-1 mysql-5.5 security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3078-1 MySQL vulnerability
References
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http://legalhackers.com/advisories/MySQL-Exploit-Remote-Root-Code-Execution-Privesc-CVE-2016-6662.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2058.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2059.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2060.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2061.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2062.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2077.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2130.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2131.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2595.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2749.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2927.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2928.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0184.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Sep/23 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3666 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/12/3 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92912 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036769 cve-icon cve-icon
https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-10465 cve-icon cve-icon
https://legalhackers.com/advisories/MySQL-Exploit-Remote-Root-Code-Execution-Privesc-CVE-2016-6662.txt cve-icon
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-10027-release-notes/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-10117-release-notes/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-5551-release-notes/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6662 cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-01 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6662 cve-icon
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40360/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/09/12/percona-server-critical-update-cve-2016-6662/ cve-icon cve-icon
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:36:29.525Z

Reserved: 2016-08-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-6662

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-09-20T18:59:00.127

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-6662

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2016-09-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-6662 - Bugzilla

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