CVE-2012-5060 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-5060?

CVE-2012-5060 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 5.1.65 and earlier and 5.5.27 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability, related to GIS Extension.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-5060?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Mariadb Mariadb, Oracle Mysql.

How do I fix CVE-2012-5060?

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-2012-5060 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5060 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7m69-wxxg-4jqh.