CVE-2012-0578

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-01-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.5.28 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Server Optimizer.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10
MariaDB: from 5.5.0 before 5.5.29; 10.0.0 — fixed in 5.5.29
MySQL Server: from 5.1.0 through 5.1.66; from 5.5.0 through 5.5.28

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: MariaDB 5.5.29. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/53372
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-06.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:150
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2013-1515902.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1703-1
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16947
http://secunia.com/advisories/53372
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-06.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:150
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2013-1515902.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1703-1
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16947

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