MySQL Workbench also makes it harder to mess up the config file by, say, accidentally inserting a linebreak where it doesn’t belong. Initially, MySQL Workbench doesn’t have an options file ...

“As temporary mitigations, users should ensure that no mysql config files are owned by mysql user, and create root-owned dummy my.cnf files that are not in use,” Golunski said in his advisory.

Can also be used for baseline configuration compliance checking. A friend and ex-colleague of mine Tom Liakos @ Specificmedia pointed out a long time after I wrote this that Percona independently ...

I found that the mysql config file (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) was referencing the user mysql so I changed it to root, and restarted the server.

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2016-6662, can be exploited to modify the MySQL configuration file (my.cnf) and cause an attacker-controlled library to be executed with root privileges if the MySQL ...