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CVE-2016-6662 Detail

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Description

Oracle MySQL through 5.5.52, 5.6.x through 5.6.33, and 5.7.x through 5.7.15; MariaDB before 5.5.51, 10.0.x before 10.0.27, and 10.1.x before 10.1.17; and Percona Server before 5.5.51-38.1, 5.6.x before 5.6.32-78.0, and 5.7.x before 5.7.14-7 allow local users to create arbitrary configurations and bypass certain protection mechanisms by setting general_log_file to a my.cnf configuration. NOTE: this can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code with root privileges by setting malloc_lib. NOTE: the affected MySQL version information is from Oracle's October 2016 CPU. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that the issue was silently patched in MySQL 5.5.52, 5.6.33, and 5.7.15.

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://legalhackers.com/advisories/MySQL-Exploit-Remote-Root-Code-Execution-Privesc-CVE-2016-6662.html	CVE, MITRE	Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2058.html	CVE, MITRE	Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2059.html	CVE, MITRE	Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2060.html	CVE, MITRE	Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2061.html	CVE, MITRE	Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2062.html	CVE, MITRE	Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2077.html	CVE, MITRE	Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2130.html	CVE, MITRE	Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2131.html	CVE, MITRE	Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2595.html	CVE, MITRE	Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2749.html	CVE, MITRE	Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2927.html	CVE, MITRE	Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2928.html	CVE, MITRE	Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0184.html	CVE, MITRE	Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Sep/23	CVE, MITRE	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3666	CVE, MITRE	Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/12/3	CVE, MITRE	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html	CVE, MITRE	Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92912	CVE, MITRE	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036769	CVE, MITRE	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-10465	CVE, MITRE	Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-10027-release-notes/	CVE, MITRE	Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-10117-release-notes/	CVE, MITRE	Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-5551-release-notes/	CVE, MITRE	Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-01	CVE, MITRE	Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40360/	CVE, MITRE	Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/09/12/percona-server-critical-update-cve-2016-6662/	CVE, MITRE	Third Party Advisory

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-264	Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls	👁 cwe source acceptance level NIST

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-6662
NVD Published Date:
09/20/2016
NVD Last Modified:
06/16/2026
Source:
MITRE

URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6662

⇱ NVD - CVE-2016-6662

CVE-2016-6662 Detail

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Change History

CVE Modified by MITRE 6/16/2026 8:51:32 PM

CVE Status Change 5/06/2026 6:30:45 PM

CVE Modified by CVE 11/20/2024 9:56:34 PM

CVE Modified by MITRE 5/14/2024 12:03:58 AM

CPE Deprecation Remap by NIST 8/04/2021 1:15:17 PM

CPE Deprecation Remap by NIST 8/04/2021 1:15:35 PM

Reanalysis by NIST 6/03/2019 1:41:56 PM

Modified Analysis by NIST 3/05/2019 1:22:48 PM

CVE Modified by MITRE 1/04/2018 9:31:06 PM

CVE Modified by MITRE 8/12/2017 9:29:13 PM

CVE Modified by MITRE 2/10/2017 9:59:01 PM

CVE Modified by MITRE 1/06/2017 10:00:38 PM

Modified Analysis by NIST 11/01/2016 2:35:38 PM

Initial CVE Analysis 11/01/2016 2:04:23 PM

CVE Modified by MITRE 10/25/2016 10:02:39 PM

Initial CVE Analysis 10/04/2016 1:28:25 PM

Modified Analysis by NIST 10/04/2016 1:28:27 PM

CVE Modified by MITRE 9/30/2016 9:59:12 PM

Modified Analysis by NIST 9/21/2016 12:09:14 PM

Initial CVE Analysis 9/21/2016 10:47:21 AM

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