CVE-2012-5614 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Oracle MySQL versions 5.1.67 and earlier, 5.5.29 and earlier, and MariaDB 5.5.28a. An authenticated remote attacker can crash the mysqld service by executing a SELECT command with an UpdateXML function containing deeply nested XML elements. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0, indicating a low severity, as it requires authentication and only leads to a partial availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild and lacking significant community discussion or media coverage, a proof-of-concept exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 5.1.0, <= 5.1.67CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 5.5.0, <= 5.5.29CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 5.5.0, < 5.5.30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 10.0.0, < 10.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
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