# CVE-2012-1757: Denial of service in n/a

> Remote authenticated users can cause a denial of service in Oracle MySQL Server via unspecified InnoDB vectors.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.0 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 17 Jul 2012
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-g82c-qhg7-536w

## What is CVE-2012-1757?

CVE-2012-1757 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mariadb Mariadb, published on 17 Jul 2012. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL Server 5.5.23 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to InnoDB.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-1757?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Mariadb Mariadb, Oracle Mysql.

## How do I fix CVE-2012-1757?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-1757 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2012-1757 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-1757 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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- [CVE-2026-85748](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-85748/): MariaDB: Use-after-free with a large number of SYS_REFCURSOR's (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2026-92262](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-92262/): MariaDB: Numerous issues caused by historical #mysql50# tablename encoding bypass. (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2023-26785](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-26785/): Code injection in n/a (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2012-1757 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2012-1757 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mariadb Mariadb, published on 17 Jul 2012. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-1757 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Mariadb Mariadb. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-1757/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-1757/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-1757
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1757
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-1757

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