CVE-2012-5096 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-5096?

CVE-2012-5096 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 17 Jan 2013. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-5096?

It affects 3 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2012-5096?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-5096 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

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-2012-5096 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5096 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

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-mq7h-487v-4gp9.