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CVE-2012-5614

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 13.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2012-12-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Oracle MySQL 5.1.67 and earlier and 5.5.29 and earlier, and MariaDB 5.5.28a and possibly other versions, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (mysqld crash) via a SELECT command with an UpdateXML command containing XML with a large number of unique, nested elements.

Affected products

• MariaDB: from 5.5.0 before 5.5.30; from 10.0.0 before 10.0.2 — fixed in 10.0.2, 5.5.30
• MySQL Server: from 5.1.0 through 5.1.67; from 5.5.0 through 5.5.29
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 6.4
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 6.4
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: MariaDB 10.0.2, 5.5.30. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0772.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/7
• 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.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/4
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2013-1899555.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027829
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882607
• https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3910
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0772.html

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