CVE-2013-1861

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 18.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-03-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

MariaDB 5.5.x before 5.5.30, 5.3.x before 5.3.13, 5.2.x before 5.2.15, and 5.1.x before 5.1.68, and Oracle MySQL 5.1.69 and earlier, 5.5.31 and earlier, and 5.6.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted geometry feature that specifies a large number of points, which is not properly handled when processing the binary representation of this feature, related to a numeric calculation error.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 12.10, 13.04
Debian Linux: 7.0
MariaDB: from 5.5.0 before 5.5.32; from 10.0.0 before 10.0.4 — fixed in 10.0.4, 5.5.32
Opensuse: 11.4, 12.2, 12.3
MySQL Server: from 5.1.0 through 5.1.69; from 5.5.0 through 5.5.31; from 5.6.0 through 5.6.11
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5, 6.0
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 11-sp3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 11-sp3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11-sp3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: MariaDB 10.0.4, 5.5.32. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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