redhat · CVE-2016-5617

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-10-19 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2016-10-19 00:00:00 UTC

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Tracker summary

A flaw was found in the way the mysqld_safe script handled creation of error log file. The mysql operating system user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root.

Description:

A flaw was found in the way the mysqld_safe script handled creation of error log file. The mysql operating system user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root.

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