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VPR Score: 8.9
Synopsis
The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
Description
The MySQL project reports :
- CVE-2016-3492: Remote security vulnerability in 'Server: Optimizer' sub component.
- CVE-2016-5616, CVE-2016-6663: Race condition allows local users with certain permissions to gain privileges by leveraging use of my_copystat by REPAIR TABLE to repair a MyISAM table.
- CVE-2016-5617, CVE-2016-6664: mysqld_safe, when using file-based logging, allows local users with access to the mysql account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on error logs and possibly other files.
- CVE-2016-5624: Remote security vulnerability in 'Server: DML' sub component.
- CVE-2016-5626: Remote security vulnerability in 'Server: GIS' sub component.
- CVE-2016-5629: Remote security vulnerability in 'Server: Federated' sub component.
- CVE-2016-8283: Remote security vulnerability in 'Server: Types' sub component.
Solution
Update the affected packages.