CVE-2012-0574 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-0574?

CVE-2012-0574 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 17 Jan 2013. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.1.66 and earlier, and 5.5.28 and earlier, allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via unknown vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-0574?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Mariadb Mariadb, Oracle Mysql, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2012-0574?

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-2012-0574 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-0574 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-956m-p5j6-46qj.