CVE-2016-6662

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.

Bugs

• <https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-6662&gt;