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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201711-04">
<title>MariaDB, MySQL: Root privilege escalation</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability was discovered in MariaDB and MySQL which may allow
local users to gain root privileges.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">mariadb,mysql</product>
<announced>2017-11-10</announced>
<revised count="1">2017-11-10</revised>
<bug>635704</bug>
<bug>635706</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="dev-db/mariadb" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">10.0.30-r1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">10.0.30-r1</vulnerable>
</package>
<package name="dev-db/mysql" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">5.6.36-r1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">5.6.36-r1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>MySQL is a popular multi-threaded, multi-user SQL server. MariaDB is an
enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>The Gentoo installation scripts 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.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A local attacker could escalate privileges to root.</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All MariaDB users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-db/mariadb-10.0.30-r1"
</code>
<p>All MySQL users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-db/mysql-5.6.36-r1"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-15945">
CVE-2017-15945
</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-10-28T18:23:53Z">whissi</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-11-10T22:46:58Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>