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Fedora 23: 2016-58f90ae3cc Moderate: Mariadb Privilege Escalation

fedora
Calendar Grey October 3, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 23 enhances its mariadb package to version 10.0.27, rectifying a vulnerability linked to potential privilege escalation threats.
Update to 10.0.27, which also includes a security fix for CVE-2016-6662.

Summary

MariaDB is a community developed branch of MySQL.

MariaDB is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server.

It is a client/server implementation consisting of a server daemon (mysqld)

and many different client programs and libraries. The base package

contains the standard MariaDB/MySQL client programs and generic MySQL files.

Update Information:

Update to 10.0.27, which also includes a security fix for CVE-2016-6662.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora privilege escalation security fix database mariadb

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1375198 - CVE-2016-6662 mysql: general_log can write to configuration files, leading to privilege escalation https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375198

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update mariadb' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: mariadb
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 10.0.27
Release: 1.fc23
URL: http://mariadb.org
Summary: A community developed branch of MySQL

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora privilege escalation security fix database mariadb

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