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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-800
Advisory Release Date: 2017-02-22 18:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-02-22 18:00 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
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-2016-5616, CVE-2016-6663)
Affected Packages:
mysql51
Issue Correction:
Run yum update mysql51 to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
mysql51-bench-5.1.73-8.72.amzn1.i686
mysql51-embedded-devel-5.1.73-8.72.amzn1.i686
mysql51-debuginfo-5.1.73-8.72.amzn1.i686
mysql51-5.1.73-8.72.amzn1.i686
mysql51-common-5.1.73-8.72.amzn1.i686
mysql51-test-5.1.73-8.72.amzn1.i686
mysql51-server-5.1.73-8.72.amzn1.i686
mysql51-devel-5.1.73-8.72.amzn1.i686
mysql51-libs-5.1.73-8.72.amzn1.i686
mysql51-embedded-5.1.73-8.72.amzn1.i686
src:
mysql51-5.1.73-8.72.amzn1.src
x86_64:
mysql51-server-5.1.73-8.72.amzn1.x86_64
mysql51-devel-5.1.73-8.72.amzn1.x86_64
mysql51-common-5.1.73-8.72.amzn1.x86_64
mysql51-debuginfo-5.1.73-8.72.amzn1.x86_64
mysql51-test-5.1.73-8.72.amzn1.x86_64
mysql51-5.1.73-8.72.amzn1.x86_64
mysql51-embedded-devel-5.1.73-8.72.amzn1.x86_64
mysql51-libs-5.1.73-8.72.amzn1.x86_64
mysql51-bench-5.1.73-8.72.amzn1.x86_64
mysql51-embedded-5.1.73-8.72.amzn1.x86_64