CVE-2014-2494 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-2494?

CVE-2014-2494 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 17 Jul 2014. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.5.37 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via vectors related to ENARC.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-2494?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Mariadb Mariadb, Oracle Mysql, Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop, Suse Linux Enterprise Server, Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2014-2494?

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-2014-2494 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-2494 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-8cpc-jvx2-9h3j, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2494.