Over 1 Billion Mobile App Accounts can be Hijacked Remotely with this Simple Hack

Security researchers have discovered a way to target a huge number of Android and iOS apps that could allow them to remotely sign into any victim’s mobile app account without any knowledge of the victim.

A group of three researchers – Ronghai Yang, Wing Cheong Lau, and Tianyu Liu – from the Chinese University of Hong Kong has found [PPT] that most of the popular mobile apps that support

MySQL / MariaDB / PerconaDB – Root Privilege Escalation Exploit ( CVE-2016-6664 / CVE-2016-5617 )

Posted by Dawid Golunski on Nov 04

CVE-2016-6664 / (Oracle)CVE-2016-5617
Vulnerability: MySQL / MariaDB / PerconaDB – Root Privilege Escalation

Discovered by:
Dawid Golunski
@dawid_golunski
https://legalhackers.com

MySQL-based databases including MySQL, MariaDB and PerconaDB are affected
by a privilege escalation vulnerability which can let attackers who have
gained access to mysql system user (for example through CVE-2016-6663)
to further escalate their privileges to root user…