CVE-2012-5611: MariaDB

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• MariaDB MariaDB: version 5.1.41 only; version 5.1.42 only; version 5.1.44 only; version 5.1.47 only; version 5.1.49 only; version 5.1.50 only; …
• Oracle MySQL: version 5.1.53 only; version 5.5.19 only

Published 2012-12-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.