CVE-2012-5612 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00000.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/5 http://secunia.com/advisories/53372 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-06.xml http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/23076 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-1703-1 https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3908 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A16960