Alpine: mariadb: security update to 5.5.51-r0

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 405552

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

- 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. (CVE-2016-6662)

- Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL 5.5.48 and earlier, 5.6.29 and earlier, and 5.7.11 and earlier
and MariaDB before 5.5.49, 10.0.x before 10.0.25, and 10.1.x before 10.1.14 allows local users to affect
confidentiality via vectors related to DML. (CVE-2016-0643)

- Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL 5.5.48 and earlier, 5.6.29 and earlier, and 5.7.11 and earlier
and MariaDB before 5.5.49, 10.0.x before 10.0.25, and 10.1.x before 10.1.14 allows local users to affect
availability via vectors related to FTS. (CVE-2016-0647)

- Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL 5.5.48 and earlier, 5.6.29 and earlier, and 5.7.11 and earlier
and MariaDB before 5.5.49, 10.0.x before 10.0.25, and 10.1.x before 10.1.14 allows local users to affect
availability via vectors related to PS. (CVE-2016-0648)

- Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL 5.5.48 and earlier, 5.6.29 and earlier, and 5.7.11 and earlier
and MariaDB before 5.5.49, 10.0.x before 10.0.25, and 10.1.x before 10.1.14 allows local users to affect
availability via vectors related to Security: Privileges. (CVE-2016-0666)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 405552

Version: Revision 1.24

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 3/12/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-6662

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/19/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-0643, CVE-2016-0647, CVE-2016-0648, CVE-2016-0666, CVE-2016-3452, CVE-2016-3477, CVE-2016-3521, CVE-2016-3615, CVE-2016-5440, CVE-2016-5444, CVE-2016-6662

BID: 86457, 86486, 86495, 86509, 91902, 91932, 91953, 91960, 91987, 91999, 92912

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