RedHat: RHSA-2016-2058:01 Important: mariadb-galera security update
Summary
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):
* It was discovered that the MySQL logging functionality allowed writing to
MySQL configuration files. An administrative database user, or a database
user with FILE privileges, could possibly use this flaw to run arbitrary
commands with root privileges on the system running the database server.
(CVE-2016-6662)
Summary
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.
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6662 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6662
Package List
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6:
Source:
mariadb-galera-5.5.42-1.1.el6ost.src.rpm
x86_64:
mariadb-galera-common-5.5.42-1.1.el6ost.x86_64.rpm
mariadb-galera-debuginfo-5.5.42-1.1.el6ost.x86_64.rpm
mariadb-galera-server-5.5.42-1.1.el6ost.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/
Topic
An update for mariadb-galera is now available for Red Hat Enterprise LinuxOpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6 - x86_64
Bugs Fixed
1375198 - CVE-2016-6662 mysql: general_log can write to configuration files, leading to privilege escalation