CVE-2013-1861 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2013-1861?

CVE-2013-1861 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 28 Mar 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

MariaDB 5.5.x before 5.5.30, 5.3.x before 5.3.13, 5.2.x before 5.2.15, and 5.1.x before 5.1.68, and Oracle MySQL 5.1.69 and earlier, 5.5.31 and earlier, and 5.6.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted geometry feature that specifies a large number of points, which is not properly handled when processing the binary representation of this feature, related to a numeric calculation error.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1861?

It affects 9 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Mariadb Mariadb, Opensuse Opensuse, Oracle Mysql, Redhat Enterprise Linux and 3 more.

How do I fix CVE-2013-1861?

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-2013-1861 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2013-1861 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-5cv5-75c5-879q.