CVE-2012-5612
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.5 · Out-of-bounds write
6.5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in Oracle MySQL 5.5.19 and other versions through 5.5.28, and MariaDB 5.5.28a and possibly other versions, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated using certain variations of the (1) USE, (2) SHOW TABLES, (3) DESCRIBE, (4) SHOW FIELDS FROM, (5) SHOW COLUMNS FROM, (6) SHOW INDEX FROM, (7) CREATE TABLE, (8) DROP TABLE, (9) ALTER TABLE, (10) DELETE FROM, (11) UPDATE, and (12) SET PASSWORD commands.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)67%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Affected products we track (4)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00000.htmlAdvisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/53372
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-06.xmlAdvisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:102
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:150
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/3Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/5Advisory
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/23076Advisory