GLSA-201711-04 : MariaDB, MySQL: Root privilege escalation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201711-04 MariaDB, MySQL: Root privilege escalation The Gentoo installation scripts before 2017-09-29 have chown calls for user-writable directory trees, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to the mysq...

CVE-2017-15945

The CVE-2017-15945 issue affects Gentoo package installation scripts for dev-db/mysql, dev-db/mariadb, dev-db/percona-server, dev-db/mysql-cluster, and dev-db/mariadb-galera prior to 2017-09-29. The root cause is misused chown calls on user-writable directory trees, enabling a local user with acc...