CVE-2012-5611

medium
Published 2012-12-03 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.5
VIR risk
6.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
linux linux-kernel-not-affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mysql mariadbmariadb5.1.41
mysql mariadbmariadb5.1.42
mysql mariadbmariadb5.1.44
mysql mariadbmariadb5.1.47
mysql mariadbmariadb5.1.49
mysql mariadbmariadb5.1.50
mysql mariadbmariadb5.1.51
mysql mariadbmariadb5.1.53
mysql mariadbmariadb5.1.55
mysql mariadbmariadb5.1.60
mysql mariadbmariadb5.1.61
mysql mariadbmariadb5.1.62
mysql mariadbmariadb5.2.0
mysql mariadbmariadb5.2.1
mysql mariadbmariadb5.2.2
mysql mariadbmariadb5.2.3
mysql mariadbmariadb5.2.4
mysql mariadbmariadb5.2.5
mysql mariadbmariadb5.2.6
mysql mariadbmariadb5.2.7
mysql mariadbmariadb5.2.8
mysql mariadbmariadb5.2.9
mysql mariadbmariadb5.2.10
mysql mariadbmariadb5.2.11
mysql mariadbmariadb5.2.12
mysql mariadbmariadb5.3.0
mysql mariadbmariadb5.3.1
mysql mariadbmariadb5.3.2
mysql mariadbmariadb5.3.3
mysql mariadbmariadb5.3.4
mysql mariadbmariadb5.3.5
mysql mariadbmariadb5.3.6
mysql mariadbmariadb5.3.7
mysql mariadbmariadb5.3.8
mysql mariadbmariadb5.3.9
mysql mariadbmariadb5.3.10
mysql mariadbmariadb5.5.20
mysql mariadbmariadb5.5.21
mysql mariadbmariadb5.5.22
mysql mariadbmariadb5.5.23
mysql mariadbmariadb5.5.24
mysql mariadbmariadb5.5.25
mysql mariadbmariadb5.5.27
mysql mariadbmariadb5.5.28
oracle oraclemysql5.1.53
oracle oraclemysql5.5.19

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.