The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:0184 advisory.

    MySQL is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. It consists of the MySQL server daemon (mysqld)     and many client programs and libraries.

    Security Fix(es):

    * It was discovered that the MySQL logging functionality allowed writing to MySQL 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 MySQL 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, CVE-2016-5616)

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 6 : mysql (RHSA-2017:0184)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 96756

Version 3.10