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Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource Affecting mariadb-embedded package, versions <1:5.5.52-1.el7

Severity

 Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.93% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-MARIADBEMBEDDED-5179473
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed12 Sept 2016
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Introduced: 12 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-6662  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-732  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 mariadb-embedded to version 1:5.5.52-1.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2016:2595.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mariadb-embedded package and not the mariadb-embedded package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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