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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2012-5612

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…

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 20.8%

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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 20.8%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

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.

CVSS 2.0
6.5 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
20.84% probability · 97th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-787
Affected
mariadb/mariadb · oracle/mysql · suse/linux enterprise desktop · suse/linux enterprise server · suse/linux enterprise software development kit · canonical/ubuntu linux
Source
secalert@redhat.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.