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CVE-2016-6663

Date: December 13, 2016

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.0

Related Resources (27)

Url: https://github.com/MariaDB/server/commit/347eeefbfc658c8531878218487d729f4e020805

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/25/4

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0184.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2928.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2131.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2595.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92911

Url: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-33.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2130.html

Url: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-15.html

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6663

Url: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Nov/4

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6663

Url: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-5552-release-notes/

Url: https://legalhackers.com/advisories/MySQL-Maria-Percona-PrivEscRace-CVE-2016-6663-5616-Exploit.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2749.html

Url: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-10028-release-notes/

Url: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-52.html

Url: https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/4e5473862e6852b0f3802b0cd0c6fa10b5253291

Url: https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/11/02/percona-responds-to-cve-2016-6663-and-cve-2016-6664/

Url: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40678/

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93614

Url: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/8.0/en/news-8-0-1.html

Url: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-10118-release-notes/

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2927.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-6663

Severity Score

7.0

Weakness Type (CWE)

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

CWE-362

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.0
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.4
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2016-6663

Date: December 13, 2016

Language: C

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