CVE-2016-5440 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-5440?

CVE-2016-5440 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, 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 5.5.49 and earlier, 5.6.30 and earlier, and 5.7.12 and earlier and MariaDB before 5.5.50, 10.0.x before 10.0.26, and 10.1.x before 10.1.15 allows remote administrators to affect availability via vectors related to Server: RBR.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5440?

It affects 12 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Ibm Powerkvm, Mariadb Mariadb, Oracle Linux, Oracle Mysql and 6 more.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5440?

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-2016-5440 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5440 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 ALPINE-CVE-2016-5440, GHSA-jgx2-h5wg-8cmc, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5440.