### [CVE-2017-15945](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15945)
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### Description

The installation scripts in the Gentoo dev-db/mysql, dev-db/mariadb, dev-db/percona-server, dev-db/mysql-cluster, and dev-db/mariadb-galera packages before 2017-09-29 have chown calls for user-writable directory trees, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to the mysql account for creation of a link.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/lekctut/sdb-hw-13-01
- https://github.com/pedr0alencar/vlab-metasploitable2
- https://github.com/scmanjarrez/CVEScannerV2