CVE-2012-5612
Oracle MySQL <5.5.29 - Buffer Overflow
Title source: llmDescription
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.
Exploits (1)
References (13)
Scores
EPSS
0.6684
EPSS Percentile
98.6%
Details
CWE
CWE-787
Status
published
Products (10)
canonical/ubuntu_linux
10.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
11.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux
12.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
12.10
mariadb/mariadb
10.0.0
mariadb/mariadb
5.1.0 - 5.1.67
oracle/mysql
5.5.0 - 5.5.28
suse/linux_enterprise_desktop
11 sp2
suse/linux_enterprise_server
11 sp2 (2 CPE variants)
suse/linux_enterprise_software_development_kit
11 sp2
Published
Dec 03, 2012
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026