CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-5612

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2012-12-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-12-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• mariadb mariadb (>= 5.1.0 < 5.1.67) • mariadb mariadb (>= 5.2.0 < 5.2.14) • mariadb mariadb (>= 5.3.0 < 5.3.12) • mariadb mariadb (>= 5.5.0 < 5.5.29) • mariadb mariadb 10.0.0 • oracle mysql (>= 5.5.0 <= 5.5.28) • suse linux enterprise desktop 11 • suse linux enterprise server 11 • suse linux enterprise software development kit 11 • canonical ubuntu linux 10.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 11.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.10

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References