CVE-2014-0001

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-01-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in client/mysql.cc in Oracle MySQL and MariaDB before 5.5.35 allows remote database servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long server version string.

Affected products

MariaDB: through 5.5.34
MySQL Server: 5.5.0, 5.5.1, 5.5.2, 5.5.3, 5.5.4, 5.5.5 (+48)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5, 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 5.0, 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0

References

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.5/revision/2502.565.64
http://osvdb.org/102713
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0164.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0173.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0186.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0189.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/52161
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201409-04.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:029
http://www.osvdb.org/102714
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65298
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029708

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