CVE-2014-2431 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in Oracle MySQL Server via unspecified vectors related to Options.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not stated
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2014-2431?
CVE-2014-2431 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mariadb Mariadb, published on 16 Apr 2014. It can be exploited over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL Server 5.5.36 and earlier and 5.6.16 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Options.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-2431?
It affects 9 products.
Products include Mariadb Mariadb, Oracle Mysql, Oracle Solaris, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server and 3 more.
How do I fix CVE-2014-2431?
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-2014-2431 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-2431 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Mariadb Mariadb
- CVE-2026-49261 MariaDB server has unsafe parameter handling in `wsrep_notify_cmd`
- CVE-2026-85746 MariaDB: Out-of-bound buffer write on in `ST_AsText` of nested GeometryCollections
- CVE-2026-85748 MariaDB: Use-after-free with a large number of SYS_REFCURSOR's
- CVE-2026-92262 MariaDB: Numerous issues caused by historical #mysql50# tablename encoding bypass.
- CVE-2023-26785 Code injection in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-p83p-7pm4-f79w, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2431.