CVE-2006-7232 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2006-7232?

CVE-2006-7232 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 26 Feb 2008. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

sql_select.cc in MySQL 5.0.x before 5.0.32 and 5.1.x before 5.1.14 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) via an EXPLAIN SELECT FROM on the INFORMATION_SCHEMA table, as originally demonstrated using ORDER BY.

Weakness: CWE-89

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-7232?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Mysql Mysql.

How do I fix CVE-2006-7232?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2006-7232 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-7232 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-r8rq-fj6m-6p56.