CVE-2016-5436 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-5436?

CVE-2016-5436 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Mysql, published on 21 Jul 2016. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL 5.7.12 and earlier allows remote administrators to affect availability via vectors related to Server: InnoDB.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5436?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Mysql.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5436?

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-2016-5436 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5436 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2020-14878 Auth bypass in MySQL Server High 8.0
• CVE-2002-0969 Memory corruption in n/a High 7.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-8653-9xwr-x395, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5436.