ALPINE-CVE-2016-6662

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    ALPINE-CVE-2016-6662

    Published: 20 Sept 2016Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-6662

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-6662

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mariadb

    Purl: pkg:apk/alpine/mariadb?arch=source

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 5.5.20
    Fixed -5.5.51-r0

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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