CVE-2012-5611
MEDIUMEPSS 98th pctlDescription
Stack-based buffer overflow in the acl_get function in Oracle MySQL 5.5.19 and other versions through 5.5.28, and 5.1.53 and other versions through 5.1.66, and MariaDB 5.5.2.x before 5.5.28a, 5.3.x before 5.3.11, 5.2.x before 5.2.13 and 5.1.x before 5.1.66, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the GRANT FILE command.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 98% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00020.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00010.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1551.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0180.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/4
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51443
- http://secunia.com/advisories/53372
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-06.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2581
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/23075
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:102
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:150
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/4
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2013-1515902.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1658-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1703-1
- https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5166-release-notes/
- https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5213-release-notes/
- https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5311-release-notes/
- https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5528a-release-notes/
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16395
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