CVE-2017-15945

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    CVE-2017-15945

    Published: 27 Oct 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The installation scripts in the Gentoo dev-db/mysql, dev-db/mariadb, dev-db/percona-server, dev-db/mysql-cluster, and dev-db/mariadb-galera packages before 2017-09-29 have chown calls for user-writable directory trees, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to the mysql account for creation of a link.

    References: https://bugs.gentoo.org/630822, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-04

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -656d0f10e51a554ec2ff895c5e25e16a5da0d00e

    Affected versions

    mariadb-galera-10.0.29
    mariadb-galera-10.0.28
    mariadb-galera-10.0.27
    mariadb-galera-10.0.26
    mariadb-galera-10.0.25
    mariadb-galera-10.0.24
    mariadb-galera-10.0.23
    mariadb-galera-10.0.22
    mariadb-galera-10.0.21
    mariadb-galera-10.0.20
    mariadb-galera-10.0.19
    mariadb-galera-10.0.17
    mariadb-galera-10.0.16
    mariadb-galera-10.0.15
    mariadb-galera-10.0.14
    mariadb-galera-10.0.13
    mariadb-galera-10.0.12
    mariadb-galera-10.0.11
    mariadb-galera-10.0.10
    mariadb-galera-10.0.7a
    mariadb-galera-10.0.7

    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