CVE-2016-0546

Summary

CVECVE-2016-0546
StatePUBLISHED
Assigneroracle
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2016-01-21 03:01:33 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionUnspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL 5.5.46 and earlier, 5.6.27 and earlier, and 5.7.9 and MariaDB before 5.5.47, 10.0.x before 10.0.23, and 10.1.x before 10.1.10 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Client. NOTE: the previous information is from the January 2016 CPU. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that these are multiple buffer overflows in the mysqlshow tool that allow remote database servers to have unspecified impact via a long table or database name.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.2 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.10 All All All
Application Mariadb Mariadb All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3453-1 mariadb-10.0 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2016:0377-1: important: Security update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
MariaDB 10.0.23 Release Notes - MariaDB Knowledge Base af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 mariadb.com Vendor Advisory
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2016:1619-1: important: Security update for af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
USN-2881-1: MySQL vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Oracle MySQL CVE-2016-0546 Local Security Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
MySQL :: MySQL 5.5 Release Notes :: Changes in MySQL 5.5.47 (2015-12-07, General Availability) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 dev.mysql.com Vendor Advisory
MySQL :: MySQL 5.6 Release Notes :: Changes in MySQL 5.6.28 (2015-12-07, General Availability) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 dev.mysql.com Vendor Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Oracle Critical Patch Update - January 2016 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com Vendor Advisory
MariaDB 10.1.10 Release Notes - MariaDB Knowledge Base af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 mariadb.com Vendor Advisory
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2016:1620-1: important: Security update for af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3459-1 mysql-5.5 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2016:0367-1: important: Security update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2016:1664-1: important: Security update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
MySQL Multiple Bugs Let Remote Users Access Data and Deny Service, Remote Authenticated Users Modify Data, and Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Oracle Linux Bulletin - April 2016 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com Vendor Advisory
1301493 – (CVE-2016-0546) CVE-2016-0546 mysql: unspecified vulnerability in subcomponent: Client (CPU January 2016) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Bug#21973610: BUFFER OVERFLOW ISSUES · mysql/mysql-server@0dbd5a8 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Third Party Advisory
MariaDB 5.5.47 Release Notes - MariaDB Knowledge Base af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 mariadb.com Vendor Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2016:1686-1: important: Security update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Third Party Advisory
Oracle Solaris Bulletin - April 2016 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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