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CVEs affecting projects tracked on Release Alert, from NVD & OSV.
CVE-2016-6664
7
HIGHCVSS v3
Published
December 13, 2016
CVSS v2
6.9 MEDIUM
Affected
2 projects
Assigned by
MITRE
Severity scale
010
Description
mysqld_safe in Oracle MySQL through 5.5.51, 5.6.x through 5.6.32, and 5.7.x through 5.7.14; MariaDB; Percona Server before 5.5.51-38.2, 5.6.x before 5.6.32-78-1, and 5.7.x before 5.7.14-8; and Percona XtraDB Cluster before 5.5.41-37.0, 5.6.x before 5.6.32-25.17, and 5.7.x before 5.7.14-26.17, 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.
MariaDB
ChocolateyMariaDB is designed as a drop-in replacement of [MySQL](https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/mysql) with more features, new storage engines, fewer bugs, and better performance. MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server started by core members of the original MySQL team.
MariaDB strives to be the logical choice for database professionals looking for a robust, scalable, and reliable SQL server. To accomplish this, the MariaDB Foundation work closely and cooperatively with the larger community of users and developers in the true spirit of Free and open source software, and release software in a manner that balances predictability with reliability.
#### MariaDB comparison to MySQL
* [Features](https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-features/)
* [Compatibility](https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/)
#### Community
* [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/MariaDB.dbms)
* [Google+](https://plus.google.com/+mariadb)
* [Twitter](https://twitter.com/mariadb)
**Please Note**: This is an automatically updated package. If you find it is
out of date by more than a day or two, please contact the maintainer(s) and
let them know [here](https://github.com/mkevenaar/chocolatey-packages/issues) that the package is no longer updating correctly.
ChocolateyMariaDB is designed as a drop-in replacement of [MySQL](https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/mysql) with more features, new storage engines, fewer bugs, and better performance. MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server started by core members of the original MySQL team.
MariaDB strives to be the logical choice for database professionals looking for a robust, scalable, and reliable SQL server. To accomplish this, the MariaDB Foundation work closely and cooperatively with the larger community of users and developers in the true spirit of Free and open source software, and release software in a manner that balances predictability with reliability.
#### MariaDB comparison to MySQL
* [Features](https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-features/)
* [Compatibility](https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/)
#### Community
* [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/MariaDB.dbms)
* [Google+](https://plus.google.com/+mariadb)
* [Twitter](https://twitter.com/mariadb)
**Please Note**: This is an automatically updated package. If you find it is
out of date by more than a day or two, please contact the maintainer(s) and
let them know [here](https://github.com/mkevenaar/chocolatey-packages/issues) that the package is no longer updating correctly.>= 5.5.0, < 5.5.54, >= 10.1.0, < 10.1.21, >= 10.0.0, < 10.0.29NVD
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