CVE-2016-0605 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-0605?

CVE-2016-0605 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 21 Jan 2016. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL 5.6.26 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via unknown vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-0605?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Opensuse, Oracle Mysql, Redhat Enterprise Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2016-0605?

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-2016-0605 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-0605 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-4vgw-chff-95wv, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-0605.