CVE-2013-5908 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2013-5908?

CVE-2013-5908 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 15 Jan 2014. It can be exploited over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.1.72 and earlier, 5.5.34 and earlier, and 5.6.14 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Error Handling.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-5908?

It affects 10 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Mariadb Mariadb, Oracle Mysql, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus and 4 more.

How do I fix CVE-2013-5908?

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-2013-5908 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-5908 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

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-jvv4-q4j4-7fgv.