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HistorySep 26, 2016 - 12:00 a.m.

K72255110 : MySQL vulnerability CVE-2016-6662

2016-09-2600:00:00
my.f5.com
21

AI Score

9.7

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.009

Percentile

83.2%

Security Advisory 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. (CVE-2016-6662)
Impact
There is no impact; F5 products are not affected by this vulnerability.