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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for mysql55 (ALAS-2012-144) (CVE-2012-5611)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for mysql55 (ALAS-2012-144) (CVE-2012-5611)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/03/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/28/2014
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the acl_get function in Oracle MySQL 5.5.19 and other versions through 5.5.28, and 5.1.53 and other versions through 5.1.66, and MariaDB 5.5.2.x before 5.5.28a, 5.3.x before 5.3.11, 5.2.x before 5.2.13 and 5.1.x before 5.1.66, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the GRANT FILE command.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-mysql55
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-mysql55-bench
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-mysql55-common
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-mysql55-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-mysql55-devel
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-mysql55-embedded
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-mysql55-embedded-devel
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-mysql55-libs
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-mysql55-server
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-mysql55-test

References

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