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Amazon Linux Local Check: alas-2016-756
Information
Severity
Severity
Critical
Family
Family
Amazon Linux Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
10.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
7 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
Amazon Linux Local Security Checks
Insight
Insight
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.
Solution
Solution
Run yum update mysql55 to update your system. Run yum update mysql56 to update your system.