Issued:

2017-01-24

Updated:

2017-01-24

RHSA-2017:0184 - Important: mysql security update

Synopsis

Important: mysql security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for mysql is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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

MySQL is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. It consists of the MySQL server daemon (mysqld) and many client programs and libraries.

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)

• A race condition was found in the way MySQL performed MyISAM engine table repair. A database user with shell access to the server running mysqld could use this flaw to change permissions of arbitrary files writable by the mysql system user. (CVE-2016-6663, CVE-2016-5616)

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 MySQL server daemon (mysqld) will be restarted automatically.

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• mysql-devel-5.1.73-8.el6_8.s390x.rpm
• mysql-debuginfo-5.1.73-8.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
• mysql-libs-5.1.73-8.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
• mysql-server-5.1.73-8.el6_8.i686.rpm
• mysql-devel-5.1.73-8.el6_8.i686.rpm
• mysql-devel-5.1.73-8.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
• mysql-libs-5.1.73-8.el6_8.s390x.rpm
• mysql-devel-5.1.73-8.el6_8.s390.rpm
• mysql-server-5.1.73-8.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
• mysql-debuginfo-5.1.73-8.el6_8.s390x.rpm
• mysql-devel-5.1.73-8.el6_8.ppc64.rpm
• mysql-5.1.73-8.el6_8.src.rpm
• mysql-debuginfo-5.1.73-8.el6_8.i686.rpm
• mysql-embedded-devel-5.1.73-8.el6_8.i686.rpm
• mysql-bench-5.1.73-8.el6_8.s390x.rpm
• mysql-debuginfo-5.1.73-8.el6_8.s390.rpm
• mysql-5.1.73-8.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
• mysql-embedded-5.1.73-8.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
• mysql-embedded-5.1.73-8.el6_8.s390x.rpm
• mysql-test-5.1.73-8.el6_8.i686.rpm
• mysql-test-5.1.73-8.el6_8.ppc64.rpm
• mysql-embedded-devel-5.1.73-8.el6_8.s390.rpm
• mysql-server-5.1.73-8.el6_8.ppc64.rpm
• mysql-bench-5.1.73-8.el6_8.i686.rpm
• mysql-5.1.73-8.el6_8.ppc64.rpm
• mysql-embedded-5.1.73-8.el6_8.ppc64.rpm
• mysql-embedded-5.1.73-8.el6_8.i686.rpm
• mysql-bench-5.1.73-8.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
• mysql-devel-5.1.73-8.el6_8.ppc.rpm
• mysql-embedded-devel-5.1.73-8.el6_8.ppc.rpm
• mysql-embedded-devel-5.1.73-8.el6_8.ppc64.rpm
• mysql-embedded-devel-5.1.73-8.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
• mysql-libs-5.1.73-8.el6_8.i686.rpm
• mysql-test-5.1.73-8.el6_8.s390x.rpm
• mysql-5.1.73-8.el6_8.i686.rpm
• mysql-5.1.73-8.el6_8.s390x.rpm
• mysql-embedded-5.1.73-8.el6_8.ppc.rpm
• mysql-debuginfo-5.1.73-8.el6_8.ppc.rpm
• mysql-libs-5.1.73-8.el6_8.ppc.rpm
• mysql-libs-5.1.73-8.el6_8.s390.rpm
• mysql-bench-5.1.73-8.el6_8.ppc64.rpm
• mysql-server-5.1.73-8.el6_8.s390x.rpm
• mysql-embedded-devel-5.1.73-8.el6_8.s390x.rpm
• mysql-embedded-5.1.73-8.el6_8.s390.rpm
• mysql-debuginfo-5.1.73-8.el6_8.ppc64.rpm
• mysql-libs-5.1.73-8.el6_8.ppc64.rpm
• mysql-test-5.1.73-8.el6_8.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1375198
• This content is not included.BZ - 1378936

CVEs

• CVE-2016-5616
• CVE-2016-6662
• CVE-2016-6663

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.