CVE-2012-5614
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4
4CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Oracle MySQL 5.1.67 and earlier and 5.5.29 and earlier, and MariaDB 5.5.28a and possibly other versions, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (mysqld crash) via a SELECT command with an UpdateXML command containing XML with a large number of unique, nested elements.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)13%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
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://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2013-1899555.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0772.htmlAdvisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/53372
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-06.xmlAdvisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:150
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/3Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/4Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/7Advisory