The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2016:2595 advisory.

    MariaDB is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server that is binary compatible with MySQL.

    The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: mariadb (5.5.52). (BZ#1304516,     BZ#1377974)

    Security Fix(es):

    * It was discovered that the MariaDB logging functionality allowed writing to MariaDB 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. (CVE-2016-6662)

    * A race condition was found in the way MariaDB performed MyISAM engine table repair. A database user with     shell access to the server running mysqld could use this flaw to change permissions of arbitrary files     writable by the mysql system user. (CVE-2016-6663)

    * This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the MariaDB database server. Information about these flaws     can be found on the Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory page, listed in the References section.
    (CVE-2016-3492, CVE-2016-5612, CVE-2016-5616, CVE-2016-5624, CVE-2016-5626, CVE-2016-5629, CVE-2016-8283)

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 7 : mariadb (RHSA-2016:2595)

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