The installation scripts in the Gentoo dev-db/mysql, dev-db/mariadb, dev-db/percona-server, dev-db/mysql-cluster, and dev-db/mariadb-galera packages before 2017-09-29 have chown calls for user-writable directory trees, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to the mysql account for creation of a link.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-10-27T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:13:05.914Z

Reserved: 2017-10-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-15945

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-10-27T21:29:00.310

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223

Link: CVE-2017-15945

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