CVE-2016-0546 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2016-0546?

CVE-2016-0546 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 21 Jan 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL 5.5.46 and earlier, 5.6.27 and earlier, and 5.7.9 and MariaDB before 5.5.47, 10.0.x before 10.0.23, and 10.1.x before 10.1.10 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Client. NOTE: the previous information is from the January 2016 CPU. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that these are multiple buffer overflows in the mysqlshow tool that allow remote database servers to have unspecified impact via a long table or database name.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-0546?

It affects 16 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Mariadb Mariadb, Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Opensuse, Oracle Linux and 10 more.

How do I fix CVE-2016-0546?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2016-0546 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-0546 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• 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-c3cx-7x4c-hmh8, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-0546.