CVE-2012-3173 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-3173?

CVE-2012-3173 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 17 Oct 2012. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.1.63 and earlier, and 5.5.25 and earlier, allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to InnoDB Plugin.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-3173?

It affects 8 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Mariadb Mariadb, Oracle Mysql, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus and 2 more.

How do I fix CVE-2012-3173?

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-2012-3173 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-3173 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-2w89-7wx5-gppj.