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Critical Flaws in MySQL Give Hackers Root Access to Server (Exploits Released)

Over a month ago we reported about two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in the world’s 2nd most popular database management software MySQL:

MySQL Remote Root Code Execution (CVE-2016-6662)
Privilege Escalation (CVE-2016-6663)

At that time, Polish security researcher Dawid Golunski of Legal Hackers who discovered these vulnerabilities published technical details and proof-of-concept exploit