CVE-2012-5612

mediumpriority · track · 43EPSS 0.210 · 98 %ileexploit · PoCEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · PoC

Likely / severe?

21.0% (98th) EPSS

CVSS 6.5 · medium

Is it mine?

14 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Heap-based buffer overflow in Oracle MySQL 5.5.19 and other versions through 5.5.28, and MariaDB 5.5.28a and possibly other versions, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated using certain variations of the (1) USE, (2) SHOW TABLES, (3) DESCRIBE, (4) SHOW FIELDS FROM, (5) SHOW COLUMNS FROM, (6) SHOW INDEX FROM, (7) CREATE TABLE, (8) DROP TABLE, (9) ALTER TABLE, (10) DELETE FROM, (11) UPDATE, and (12) SET PASSWORD commands.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.06.5mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 6.4

v2.05.9mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-787USprimary

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-23076MySQL (Linux) - Heap Overrun (PoC)PoC · exploit_db

affected products (14)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
canonical ubuntu linux= 10.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 11.10nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 12.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 12.10nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mariadb mariadb= 10.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mariadb mariadb5.1.0 → 5.1.67nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mariadb mariadb5.2.0 → 5.2.14nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mariadb mariadb5.3.0 → 5.3.12nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mariadb mariadb5.5.0 → 5.5.29nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle mysql5.5.0 → 5.5.28nvdUScpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
suse linux enterprise desktop= 11nvdUScpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
suse linux enterprise server= 11nvdUScpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
suse linux enterprise software development kit= 11nvdUScpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_software_development_kit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2012-12-03modified 2026-06-16

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