CVE-2012-5611

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 24.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-12-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the acl_get function in Oracle MySQL 5.5.19 and other versions through 5.5.28, and 5.1.53 and other versions through 5.1.66, and MariaDB 5.5.2.x before 5.5.28a, 5.3.x before 5.3.11, 5.2.x before 5.2.13 and 5.1.x before 5.1.66, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the GRANT FILE command.

Affected products

MariaDB: 5.1.41, 5.1.42, 5.1.44, 5.1.47, 5.1.49, 5.1.50 (+38)
MySQL Server: 5.1.53, 5.5.19

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00013.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00020.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00010.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1551.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0180.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/4
http://secunia.com/advisories/51443
http://secunia.com/advisories/53372

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