Vulnerability CVE-2012-5614
Published: 2012-12-03

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
MySQL Denial of Service Zeroday PoC
Kingcope
02.12.2012

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4/10
2.9/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Oracle -> Mysql 
Mariadb -> Mariadb 

 References:
https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3910
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882607
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027829
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2013-1899555.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/3
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:150
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-06.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/53372
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/7
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0772.html
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