CVE-2016-0655 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-0655?

CVE-2016-0655 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 21 Apr 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 5.6.29 and earlier and 5.7.11 and earlier and MariaDB 10.0.x before 10.0.25 and 10.1.x before 10.1.14 allows local users to affect availability via vectors related to InnoDB.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-0655?

It affects 5 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2016-0655?

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-2016-0655 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-0655 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-4p34-xvm4-h22p, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-0655.