| Name | CVE-2016-6663 |
| Description | Race condition in Oracle MySQL before 5.5.52, 5.6.x before 5.6.33, 5.7.x before 5.7.15, and 8.x before 8.0.1; MariaDB before 5.5.52, 10.0.x before 10.0.28, and 10.1.x before 10.1.18; Percona Server before 5.5.51-38.2, 5.6.x before 5.6.32-78-1, and 5.7.x before 5.7.14-8; and Percona XtraDB Cluster before 5.5.41-37.0, 5.6.x before 5.6.32-25.17, and 5.7.x before 5.7.14-26.17 allows local users with certain permissions to gain privileges by leveraging use of my_copystat by REPAIR TABLE to repair a MyISAM table. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-3711-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 841049 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| mariadb-10.0 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 10.0.38-0+deb8u1 | fixed |
| mysql-5.5 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 5.5.62-0+deb8u1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mariadb-10.0 | source | jessie | 10.0.28-0+deb8u1 | DSA-3711-1 | ||
| mariadb-10.0 | source | (unstable) | 10.0.28-1 | |||
| mysql-5.5 | source | wheezy | 5.5.52-0+deb7u1 | |||
| mysql-5.5 | source | jessie | 5.5.52-0+deb8u1 | |||
| mysql-5.5 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | |||
| mysql-5.6 | source | (unstable) | 5.6.34-1 | 841049 | ||
| mysql-5.7 | source | (unstable) | 5.7.15-1 |
Fixed by: https://github.com/MariaDB/server/commit/347eeefbfc658c8531878218487d729f4e020805
Fixed by: https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/4e5473862e6852b0f3802b0cd0c6fa10b5253291
Fixed in MariaDB 5.5.52, MariaDB 10.1.18, MariaDB 10.0.28
Fixed in Oracle MySQL: 5.5.52, 5.6.33, and 5.7.15.
http://legalhackers.com/advisories/MySQL-MariaDB-PerconaDB-PrivEsc-Race-CVE-2016-6663-OCVE-2016-5616-Exploit.html