CVE-2012-5614

medium

Published 2012-12-03 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-23078 dos linux

kingcope · 2012-12-02

MySQL - Denial of Service (PoC)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
rhel	6.0	affected
rhel	6.4	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
oracle	mysql	`{"startIncluding":"5.1.0","endIncluding":"5.1.67"}`
mariadb	mariadb	`{"startIncluding":"5.5.0","endExcluding":"5.5.30"}`	`5.5.30`
oracle	mysql	`{"startIncluding":"5.5.0","endIncluding":"5.5.29"}`
mariadb	mariadb	`{"startIncluding":"10.0.0","endExcluding":"10.0.2"}`	`10.0.2`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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