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CVE-2016-6663 Detail

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.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2130.html Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2131.html Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2595.html Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2749.html Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2927.html Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2928.html Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0184.html Third Party Advisory 
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Nov/4 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/25/4 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92911 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93614 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-52.html Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-33.html Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-15.html Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/8.0/en/news-8-0-1.html Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://github.com/MariaDB/server/commit/347eeefbfc658c8531878218487d729f4e020805 Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/4e5473862e6852b0f3802b0cd0c6fa10b5253291 Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://legalhackers.com/advisories/MySQL-Maria-Percona-PrivEscRace-CVE-2016-6663-5616-Exploit.html Exploit  Third Party Advisory 
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-10028-release-notes/ Release Notes  Vendor Advisory 
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-10118-release-notes/ Release Notes  Vendor Advisory 
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-5552-release-notes/ Release Notes  Vendor Advisory 
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40678/ Exploit  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/11/02/percona-responds-to-cve-2016-6663-and-cve-2016-6664/ Vendor Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-6663
NVD Published Date:
12/13/2016
NVD Last Modified:
03/05/2019
Source:
MITRE