CVE-2012-5614

medium

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.

References

Advisories
More

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/4

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/02/3

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-06.xml

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0772.html

https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3910

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2012-5500

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.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:150

http://secunia.com/advisories/53372

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Dec/7

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-12-03

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.07751