National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-5612

Overview

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.

Description

Per http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/3, this vulnerability is for linux-based software installations.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3908

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3908

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1703-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1703-1

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2013-1515902.html

Hyperlink:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2013-1515902.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20121202 Re: Re: [Full-disclosure] MySQL (Linux) Stack based buffer overrun PoC Zeroday

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/4

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20121202 Re: Re: [Full-disclosure] MySQL (Linux) Stack based buffer overrun PoC Zeroday

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/3

External Source: EXPLOIT-DB

Name: 23076

Hyperlink:http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/23076

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20121201 MySQL (Linux) Heap Based Overrun PoC Zeroday

Hyperlink:http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/5

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2013:0262

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00000.html