CVE-2016-3501: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL 5.6.30 and earlier and 5.7.12 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via vectors related to Server: Optimizer.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.10 only; version 16.04 only
• Oracle MySQL: from 5.6.0, up to and including 5.6.30; from 5.7.0, up to and including 5.7.12

Published 2016-07-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.