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Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium Database Activity Monitor is affected by Open Source MySQL MySQL Vulnerabilities (CVE-2016-6663)

Created by Ofra Shinitzky on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/286803
286803

Security Bulletin


Summary

 MySQL could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a race condition error while setting stats during MyISAM table repair. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to change permissions of arbitrary files. IBM Security Guardium Database Activity Monitor has fixed this vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-6663
DESCRIPTION: MySQL could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a race condition error while setting stats during MyISAM table repair. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to change permissions of arbitrary files.
CVSS Base Score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/119079 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Security Guardium Database Activity Monitor V 9, 9.1, 9.5

IBM Security Guardium Database Activity Monitor V10, 10.0.1, 10.1, 10.1.2

Remediation/Fixes

Product

VRMFRemediation/First Fix
IBM Security Guardium Database Activity Monitor9xhttp://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%2BSecurity&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_9.0p6022_SecurityUpdate&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
IBM Security Guardium Database Activity Monitor10xhttp://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%2BSecurity&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_10.0p6022_SecurityUpdate&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

12/21/2-16- Original version published

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg21995324

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