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Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-2062-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-2062-01
Posted Oct 14, 2016
Authored by Red Hat | Site access.redhat.com

Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-2062-01 - MariaDB is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server that is binary compatible with MySQL. Galera is a synchronous multi-master cluster for MariaDB. Security Fix: A permissions flaw was discovered in the MySQL logging functionality, which allowed writing to MySQL configuration files. An administrative database user, or a database user with FILE privileges, could possibly exploit this flaw to run arbitrary commands with root privileges on the system running the database server.

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advisories | CVE-2016-6662
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Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-2062-01

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: mariadb-galera security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:2062-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2062.html
Issue date: 2016-10-13
CVE Names: CVE-2016-6662
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1. Summary:

An update for mariadb-galera is now available for Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 9.0 (Mitaka).

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 - x86_64

3. Description:

MariaDB is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server that is binary
compatible with MySQL. Galera is a synchronous multi-master cluster for
MariaDB.

Security Fix(es):

* A permissions flaw was discovered in the MySQL logging functionality,
which allowed writing to MySQL configuration files. An administrative
database user, or a database user with FILE privileges, could possibly
exploit this flaw to run arbitrary commands with root privileges on the
system running the database server. (CVE-2016-6662)

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing this update, the MariaDB server daemon (mysqld) will be
restarted automatically.

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1375198 - CVE-2016-6662 mysql: general_log can write to configuration files, leading to privilege escalation

6. Package List:

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0:

Source:
mariadb-galera-5.5.42-5.el7ost.src.rpm

x86_64:
mariadb-galera-common-5.5.42-5.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
mariadb-galera-debuginfo-5.5.42-5.el7ost.x86_64.rpm
mariadb-galera-server-5.5.42-5.el7ost.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6662
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2016 Red Hat, Inc.
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