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CVE-2012-5612 (GCVE-0-2012-5612)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-12-03 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:14
VLAI
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in Oracle MySQL 5.5.19 and other versions through 5.5.28, and MariaDB 5.5.28a and possibly other versions, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated using certain variations of the (1) USE, (2) SHOW TABLES, (3) DESCRIBE, (4) SHOW FIELDS FROM, (5) SHOW COLUMNS FROM, (6) SHOW INDEX FROM, (7) CREATE TABLE, (8) DROP TABLE, (9) ALTER TABLE, (10) DELETE FROM, (11) UPDATE, and (12) SET PASSWORD commands.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/23076 exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/5 mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
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http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://secunia.com/advisories/53372 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/3 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-06.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/4 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3908 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Date Public
2012-12-01 00:00
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      "current_release_date": "2025-11-21T12:48:44+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2012-5612",
      "id": "CVE-2012-5612",
      "initial_release_date": "2012-12-01T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "10",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
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      "aggregate_severity": "moderate",
      "current_release_date": "2026-08-27T02:07:28Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2012-5612",
      "id": "CVE-2012-5612",
      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T05:43:32Z",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "84",
      "product_status:recommended": "259",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2012-5612",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2012-5612.json",
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}



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