VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-0882

high
Published 2012-12-21 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Buffer overflow in yaSSL, as used in MySQL 5.5.20 and possibly other versions including 5.5.x before 5.5.22 and 5.1.x before 5.1.62, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by VulnDisco Pack Professional 9.17. NOTE: as of 20120224, this disclosure has no actionable information. However, because the module author is a reliable researcher, the issue is being assigned a CVE identifier for tracking purposes. NOTE: due to lack of details, it is not clear whether this issue is a duplicate of CVE-2012-0492 or another CVE.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
oracle oraclemysql5.5.0
oracle oraclemysql5.5.1
oracle oraclemysql5.5.2
oracle oraclemysql5.5.3
oracle oraclemysql5.5.4
oracle oraclemysql5.5.5
oracle oraclemysql5.5.6
oracle oraclemysql5.5.7
oracle oraclemysql5.5.9
oracle oraclemysql5.5.10
oracle oraclemysql5.5.11
oracle oraclemysql5.5.12
oracle oraclemysql5.5.13
oracle oraclemysql5.5.14
oracle oraclemysql5.5.15
oracle oraclemysql5.5.16
oracle oraclemysql5.5.17
oracle oraclemysql5.5.18
oracle oraclemysql5.5.19
oracle oraclemysql5.5.20
oracle oraclemysql5.5.21
mysql mysqlmysql5.1.5
mysql mysqlmysql5.1.23
mysql mysqlmysql5.1.31
mysql mysqlmysql5.1.32
mysql mysqlmysql5.1.34
mysql mysqlmysql5.1.37
oracle oraclemysql5.1
oracle oraclemysql5.1.1
oracle oraclemysql5.1.2
oracle oraclemysql5.1.3
oracle oraclemysql5.1.4
oracle oraclemysql5.1.6
oracle oraclemysql5.1.7
oracle oraclemysql5.1.8
oracle oraclemysql5.1.9
oracle oraclemysql5.1.10
oracle oraclemysql5.1.11
oracle oraclemysql5.1.12
oracle oraclemysql5.1.13
oracle oraclemysql5.1.14
oracle oraclemysql5.1.15
oracle oraclemysql5.1.16
oracle oraclemysql5.1.17
oracle oraclemysql5.1.18
oracle oraclemysql5.1.19
oracle oraclemysql5.1.20
oracle oraclemysql5.1.21
oracle oraclemysql5.1.22
oracle oraclemysql5.1.23
oracle oraclemysql5.1.24
oracle oraclemysql5.1.25
oracle oraclemysql5.1.26
oracle oraclemysql5.1.27
oracle oraclemysql5.1.28
oracle oraclemysql5.1.29
oracle oraclemysql5.1.30
oracle oraclemysql5.1.31
oracle oraclemysql5.1.33
oracle oraclemysql5.1.34
oracle oraclemysql5.1.35
oracle oraclemysql5.1.36
oracle oraclemysql5.1.37
oracle oraclemysql5.1.38
oracle oraclemysql5.1.39
oracle oraclemysql5.1.40
oracle oraclemysql5.1.41
oracle oraclemysql5.1.42
oracle oraclemysql5.1.43
oracle oraclemysql5.1.44
oracle oraclemysql5.1.45
oracle oraclemysql5.1.46
oracle oraclemysql5.1.47
oracle oraclemysql5.1.48
oracle oraclemysql5.1.49
oracle oraclemysql5.1.50
oracle oraclemysql5.1.51
oracle oraclemysql5.1.52
oracle oraclemysql5.1.53
oracle oraclemysql5.1.54
oracle oraclemysql5.1.55
oracle oraclemysql5.1.56
oracle oraclemysql5.1.57
oracle oraclemysql5.1.58
oracle oraclemysql5.1.59
oracle oraclemysql5.1.60
oracle oraclemysql5.1.61

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.