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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2012-5612 EUVD-2012-5498GHSA-j274-98hw-37wv

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, allow…

Published Dec 3, 2012 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by redhat

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.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

SUSE

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP1 mariadb104 10.4.30-150100.3.5.10 SUSE-RU-2023:3956-1
SLES 15 SP1 python-mysqlclient 1.4.6-150100.3.3.7 SUSE-RU-2023:3956-1
SLES 12 SP5 lz4 1.8.0-3.5.2 SUSE-RU-2023:4991-1
SLES 12 SP5 mariadb-connector-c 3.1.22-2.35.1 SUSE-RU-2023:4991-1
SLES 12 SP5 mariadb104 10.4.30-8.5.46 SUSE-RU-2023:4991-1
SLES 12 SP5 python-mysqlclient 1.3.14-8.9.2 SUSE-RU-2023:4991-1
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 15 SP1 mariadb104 10.4.30-150100.3.5.10 SUSE-RU-2023:3956-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP1 python-mysqlclient 1.4.6-150100.3.3.7 SUSE-RU-2023:3956-1
SLES for SAP 12 SP5 lz4 1.8.0-3.5.2 SUSE-RU-2023:4991-1
SLES for SAP 12 SP5 mariadb-connector-c 3.1.22-2.35.1 SUSE-RU-2023:4991-1
SLES for SAP 12 SP5 mariadb104 10.4.30-8.5.46 SUSE-RU-2023:4991-1
SLES for SAP 12 SP5 python-mysqlclient 1.3.14-8.9.2 SUSE-RU-2023:4991-1
SLE HPC 15 SP1 mariadb104 10.4.30-150100.3.5.10 SUSE-RU-2023:3956-1
SLE HPC 15 SP1 python-mysqlclient 1.4.6-150100.3.3.7 SUSE-RU-2023:3956-1

openSUSE

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed mariadb 10.0.22-3.8 openSUSE-SU-2024:10153-1

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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Advisories 3

References