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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:2062 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2016-10-13
Updated:
2016-10-13

RHSA-2016:2062 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: mariadb-galera security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for mariadb-galera is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka).

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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):

  • A permissions flaw was discovered in the MySQL logging functionality, which allowed writing to MySQL configuration files. An administrative database user, or a database user with FILE privileges, could possibly exploit this flaw to run arbitrary commands with root privileges on the system running the database server. (CVE-2016-6662)

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.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat OpenStack 9 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1375198 - CVE-2016-6662 mysql: general_log can write to configuration files, leading to privilege escalation

CVEs

  • CVE-2016-6662

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat OpenStack 9

SRPM
mariadb-galera-5.5.42-5.el7ost.src.rpm SHA-256: 1cc952930cbe47bbaa80b2dd1ce471f065ac3bda9650301dc695aed317e24700
x86_64
mariadb-galera-common-5.5.42-5.el7ost.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1cf3bcdcac0219cc53a2db1e19376f24af7f29c5ba01bb3a172b73789e84c9d6
mariadb-galera-debuginfo-5.5.42-5.el7ost.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5c9ad9a92e3c111f58d4daccc835ad06fdf5f86266f095ef2f08d1c458eb8493
mariadb-galera-server-5.5.42-5.el7ost.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5502c246ec3c38411eebfa2b151cedf94f307e3bd8ac325db348721f936ac288

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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