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CVE-2016-5616 is a rejected CVE candidate and must not be used. It is a duplicate reservation of CVE-2016-6663. The canonical vulnerability is a race condition in MySQL and MariaDB MyISAM table-repair handling that can be exploited by a database user with shell access to the host running mysqld to alter permissions of files writable by the mysql operating-system account.
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MySQL MyISAM table-repair race condition enabling alteration of permissions on files writable by the mysql system user.
MariaDB/MySQL MyISAM table-repair race condition permitting alteration of permissions on files writable by the mysql system user.
A MariaDB/MySQL MyISAM table-repair race-condition vulnerability.
An unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Server MyISAM component.
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