Privilege Escalation via User-Writable Directory Trees in MySQL Installation Scripts

Privilege Escalation via User-Writable Directory Trees in MySQL Installation Scripts

CVE-2017-15945 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The 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.

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