CVE-2013-1861 EXPLOIT
5.0
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 18.7% (pctl 97)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
MariaDB 5.5.x before 5.5.30, 5.3.x before 5.3.13, 5.2.x before 5.2.15, and 5.1.x before 5.1.68, and Oracle MySQL 5.1.69 and earlier, 5.5.31 and earlier, and 5.6.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted geometry feature that specifies a large number of points, which is not properly handled when processing the binary representation of this feature, related to a numeric calculation error.
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.0 (MEDIUM, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| EPSS | 18.68% — more likely to be exploited than 97% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-119 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2013-03-28 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (9)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| canonical | ubuntu linux |
| debian | debian linux |
| mariadb | mariadb |
| opensuse | opensuse |
| oracle | mysql |
| redhat | enterprise linux |
| suse | linux enterprise desktop |
| suse | linux enterprise server |
| suse | linux enterprise software development kit |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | MySQL / MariaDB - Geometry Query Denial of Service | 2013-03-07 |
References
- http://lists.askmonty.org/pipermail/commits/2013-March/004371.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00022.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-10/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00024.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00008.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q1/671
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52639
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54300
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201409-04.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2818
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujuly2013-1899826.html
- http://www.osvdb.org/91415
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58511
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1909-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919247
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82895
- https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-4252
- http://lists.askmonty.org/pipermail/commits/2013-March/004371.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00022.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-10/msg00001.html
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