Input validation error in MariaDB - CVE-2016-5440

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Input validation error in MariaDB - CVE-2016-5440

Published: July 21, 2016 / Updated: August 4, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33806
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-5440
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote privileged user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

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.


Affected software

MariaDB
mariadb (Alpine package)
mariadb55-mariadb (Red Hat package)
rh-mariadb100-mariadb (Red Hat package)
rh-mariadb101-mariadb (Red Hat package)
SUSE Linux

How to mitigate CVE-2016-5440

Install update from vendor's website.

MariaDB - addressed in versions 5.5.50, 10.0.26
mariadb (Alpine package) - update to 5.5.51-r0
mariadb55-mariadb (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 5.5.50-1.el6, 5.5.50-1.el7
rh-mariadb100-mariadb (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 10.0.26-2.el6, 10.0.26-2.el7
rh-mariadb101-mariadb (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 10.1.16-1.el6, 10.1.16-1.el7

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