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CVE-2012-1702

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.2% 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 5.1.66 and earlier and 5.5.28 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect availability via unknown vectors.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10
• MariaDB: from 5.1.0 before 5.1.67; from 5.2.0 before 5.2.14; from 5.3.0 before 5.3.12; from 5.5.0 before 5.5.29; 10.0.0 — fixed in 5.1.67, 5.2.14, 5.3.12, 5.5.29
• MySQL Server: from 5.1.0 through 5.1.66; from 5.5.0 through 5.5.28
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 6.3
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: MariaDB 5.1.67, 5.2.14, 5.3.12, 5.5.29. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0219.html
• 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%3A17186
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0219.html
• 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

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