CVE-2012-5612

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 21%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDDec 3

1st PoCDec 2

exploitation probability

21%top 3% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

2 public exploit(s)

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 products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2

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References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00000.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/5 http://secunia.com/advisories/53372 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-06.xml https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3908 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16960 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/23076 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/2012/12/02/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/4 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2013-1515902.html