CVE-2016-6663

CVE Details

Release Date:

2016-09-12

Description

Race condition in Oracle MySQL before 5.5.52, 5.6.x before 5.6.33,5.7.x before 5.7.15, and 8.x before 8.0.1; MariaDB before 5.5.52, 10.0.x before 10.0.28, and 10.1.x before 10.1.18; 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 allows local users with certain permissions to gain privileges by leveraging use of my_copystat by REPAIR TABLE to repair a MyISAM table.

See more information about CVE-2016-6663 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	3.5	Base Metrics:	AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector:	Local network	Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	Requires single instance	Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial	Availability Impact:	Partial

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

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