CVE-2017-15945

Summary

CVECVE-2017-15945
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-10-27 21:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionThe installation scripts in the Gentoo dev-db/mysql, dev-db/mariadb, dev-db/percona-server, dev-db/mysql-cluster, and dev-db/mariadb-galera packages 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-732

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Gentoo Linux - All All All
Operating System Gentoo Linux - All All All
Application Mariadb Mariadb All r1 All All
Application Mariadb Mariadb All r1 All All
Application Mysql Mysql All r1 All All
Application Mysql Mysql All r1 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
630822 – (CVE-2017-15945) dev-db/{mysql-cluster,mariadb,mysql,percona-server,mariadb-galera}: root privilege escalation via "chown" CONFIRM bugs.gentoo.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
MariaDB, MySQL: Root privilege escalation (GLSA 201711-04) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 710355 Gentoo Linux MariaDB, MySQL Root privilege escalation Vulnerability (GLSA 201711-04)
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