Upstream information

CVE-2012-5612 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 792443 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 798753 [RESOLVED / INVALID]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2
  • libmysqlclient15 >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
  • libmysqlclient15-32bit >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
  • libmysqlclient_r15 >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
  • libmysqlclient_r15-32bit >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
  • mysql >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
  • mysql-client >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
 Patchnames:
sledsp2-libmysqlclient-devel
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP1
  • libmysqld-devel >= 10.2.22-3.14.1
  • libmysqld19 >= 10.2.22-3.14.1
  • mariadb >= 10.2.22-3.14.1
  • mariadb-client >= 10.2.22-3.14.1
  • mariadb-errormessages >= 10.2.22-3.14.1
  • mariadb-tools >= 10.2.22-3.14.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15
  • libmysqld-devel >= 10.2.15-1.3
  • libmysqld19 >= 10.2.15-1.3
  • mariadb >= 10.2.15-1.3
  • mariadb-client >= 10.2.15-1.3
  • mariadb-errormessages >= 10.2.15-1.3
  • mariadb-tools >= 10.2.15-1.3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP2
  • libmysqlclient15 >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
  • libmysqlclient15-32bit >= 5.0.96-0.8.8.2
  • libmysqlclient15-x86 >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
  • libmysqlclient_r15 >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
  • mysql >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
  • mysql-Max >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
  • mysql-client >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
  • mysql-tools >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
 Patchnames:
slessp2-libmysqlclient-devel
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMWare 11 SP2
  • libmysqlclient15 >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
  • libmysqlclient15-32bit >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
  • libmysqlclient15-x86 >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
  • libmysqlclient_r15 >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
  • mysql >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
  • mysql-Max >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
  • mysql-client >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
  • mysql-tools >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
 Patchnames:
slessp2-libmysqlclient-devel
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2
  • libmysqlclient-devel >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
  • libmysqlclient_r15-32bit >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
  • libmysqlclient_r15-x86 >= 5.0.96-0.6.1
 Patchnames:
sdksp2-libmysqlclient-devel
openSUSE Leap 15.0
  • libmysqld19 >= 10.2.14-lp150.1.1
  • mariadb >= 10.2.14-lp150.1.1
  • mariadb-client >= 10.2.14-lp150.1.1
  • mariadb-errormessages >= 10.2.14-lp150.1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE Leap 15.0 GA libmysqld19
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • libmysqlclient-devel >= 10.0.22-3.8
  • libmysqlclient18 >= 10.0.22-3.8
  • libmysqlclient18-32bit >= 10.0.22-3.8
  • libmysqlclient_r18 >= 10.0.22-3.8
  • libmysqlclient_r18-32bit >= 10.0.22-3.8
  • libmysqld-devel >= 10.0.22-3.8
  • libmysqld18 >= 10.0.22-3.8
  • mariadb >= 10.0.22-3.8
  • mariadb-bench >= 10.0.22-3.8
  • mariadb-client >= 10.0.22-3.8
  • mariadb-errormessages >= 10.0.22-3.8
  • mariadb-test >= 10.0.22-3.8
  • mariadb-tools >= 10.0.22-3.8
 Patchnames:
openSUSE Tumbleweed GA libmysqlclient-devel

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification.

Product(s) Source package State
SLED-10-SP3 mysql Affected
SLED-10-SP4 mysql Affected
SLES-10-SP3 mysql Affected
SLES-10-SP4 mysql Affected
SLES_LTSS-10-SP4 mysql Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 mysql Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 mysql Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 mysql Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS mysql Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 mysql Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS mysql Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware mysql Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Business All-in-One mysql Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1 mysql Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 mysql Released