# CVE-2013-1861: 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

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB
- Published: 2013-03-28 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

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## References

- http://secunia.com/advisories/54300
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2818
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q1/671
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujuly2013-1899826.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82895
- https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-4252
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52639
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00024.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58511
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1909-1
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00022.html
- http://lists.askmonty.org/pipermail/commits/2013-March/004371.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00008.html
- http://www.osvdb.org/91415
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919247
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-10/msg00001.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201409-04.xml
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38392

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