CVE-2013-1861
Description
MariaDB 5.5.x before 5.5.30, 5.3.x before 5.3.13, 5.2.x before 5.2.15, and 5.1.x before 5.1.68, and Oracle MySQL 5.1.69 and earlier, 5.5.31 and earlier, and 5.6.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted geometry feature that specifies a large number of points, which is not properly handled when processing the binary representation of this feature, related to a numeric calculation error.
Predictions
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
MySQL / MariaDB - Geometry Query Denial of Service
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | 10.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 12.04 | affected | |
| debian | 7.0 | affected | |
| rhel | 5 | affected | |
| rhel | 6.0 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 12.10 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 13.04 | affected | |
| suse | 11.4 | affected | |
| suse | 12.2 | affected | |
| suse | 12.3 | affected | |
| suse | 11 | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| mariadb | mariadb | {"startIncluding":"5.5.0","endExcluding":"5.5.32"} | 5.5.32 |
| oracle | mysql | {"startIncluding":"5.1.0","endIncluding":"5.1.69"} | |
| mariadb | mariadb | {"startIncluding":"10.0.0","endExcluding":"10.0.4"} | 10.0.4 |
| oracle | mysql | {"startIncluding":"5.5.0","endIncluding":"5.5.31"} | |
| oracle | mysql | {"startIncluding":"5.6.0","endIncluding":"5.6.11"} | |
References
- http://lists.askmonty.org/pipermail/commits/2013-March/004371.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00022.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-10/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00024.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00008.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q1/671
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52639
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54300
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201409-04.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2818
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujuly2013-1899826.html
- http://www.osvdb.org/91415
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58511
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1909-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919247
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82895
- https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-4252
- http://lists.askmonty.org/pipermail/commits/2013-March/004371.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00022.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-10/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00024.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00008.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q1/671
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52639
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54300
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.