CVE-2012-5627 Information

Description

Oracle MySQL and MariaDB 5.5.x before 5.5.29 5.3.x before 5.3.12 and 5.2.x before 5.2.14 does not modify the salt during multiple executions of the change_user command within the same connection which makes it easier for remote authenticated users to conduct brute force password guessing attacks.

Reference

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/58 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/83 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q4/424 http://secunia.com/advisories/53372 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-06.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:102 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883719 https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3915