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CVE-2012-5614

Published: 3 December 2012

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
as of 2013-02-20, no new version from upstream
jdstrand
per mariadb developers, this CVE is not correct (see
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/28/10). Essentially, the
UpdateXML part was introduced in 5.6.6 and fixed in 5.6.10. Ubuntu does not
ship MySQL 5.6. This CVE was also linked to an invalid packet vulnerability
(https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3910), but this only existed in
5.5.18 and was fixed in 5.5.21. Since there is no 5.6 in Ubuntu and the
invalid packet issue was introduced in 5.5.18, marking this as fixed in
mysql-5.5 5.5.21 and mysql-dfsg-5.1 and mysql-5.1 as not-affected.

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
mysql-5.5
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream
Released (5.5.21)
hardy Does not exist

lucid Does not exist

oneiric Does not exist

precise Not vulnerable
(5.5.29-0ubuntu0.12.04.1)
quantal Not vulnerable
(5.5.29-0ubuntu0.12.10.1)
raring Not vulnerable
(5.5.29-0ubuntu1)
mysql-dfsg-5.1
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Not vulnerable

hardy Does not exist

lucid Not vulnerable

oneiric Does not exist

precise Does not exist

quantal Does not exist

raring Does not exist

mysql-5.1
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Not vulnerable

hardy Does not exist

lucid Does not exist

oneiric Not vulnerable

precise Does not exist

quantal Does not exist

raring Does not exist