CVE-2016-6662

CVE Details

Release Date:	2016-09-12
Impact:	Important	What is this?

Description

Oracle MySQL through 5.5.52, 5.6.x through 5.6.33, and 5.7.x through5.7.15; 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.

See more information about CVE-2016-6662 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	7.1
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	Single
Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	Complete
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (mysql)	ELSA-2017-0184	2017-01-24
Oracle Linux version 7 (mariadb)	ELSA-2016-2595	2016-11-09
Oracle VM version 3.3 (mysql)	OVMSA-2017-0035	2017-01-25
Oracle VM version 3.4 (mysql)	OVMSA-2017-0035	2017-01-25