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CVE-2016-0546 json

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL 5.5.46 and earlier, 5.6.27 and earlier, and 5.7.9 and MariaDB before 5.5.47, 10.0.x before 10.0.2…

published 2016-01-21 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-0581

cvss
7.2
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 48%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL 5.5.46 and earlier, 5.6.27 and earlier, and 5.7.9 and MariaDB before 5.5.47, 10.0.x before 10.0.23, and 10.1.x before 10.1.10 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Client. NOTE: the previous information is from the January 2016 CPU. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that these are multiple buffer overflows in the mysqlshow tool that allow remote database servers to have unspecified impact via a long table or database name.

Patch / fix

  • mariadb mariadb 5.5.47, 10.0.23, 10.1.10
  • mysql-5.5 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 5.5.47-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • mysql-5.6 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 5.6.28-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • mariadb-5.5 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 5.5.47-1ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • percona-xtradb-cluster-5.6 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 5.6.34-26.19-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-0546

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  • mariadb55-mariadb RHEL 2 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 5.5.49-1.el6
  • mariadb55-mariadb RHEL 2 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 5.5.49-1.el7
  • mariadb55-mariadb-libs RHEL 2 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 5.5.49-1.el6
  • mariadb55-mariadb-libs RHEL 2 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 5.5.49-1.el7
  • mariadb55-mariadb-test RHEL 2 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 5.5.49-1.el6
  • mariadb55-mariadb-test RHEL 2 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 5.5.49-1.el7
  • mariadb55-mariadb-bench RHEL 2 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 5.5.49-1.el6
  • mariadb55-mariadb-bench RHEL 2 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 5.5.49-1.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:1481RHSA-2016:0534RHSA-2016:1480RHSA-2016:0705RHSA-2016:1132

  • mariadb104 SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 10.4.30-8.5.46
  • lz4 SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 1.8.0-3.5.2
  • python-mysqlclient SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 1.3.14-8.9.2
  • mariadb-connector-c SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 3.1.22-2.35.1
  • mariadb SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12, SLED 12 +2 more 10.0.25-20.6.1
  • mariadb SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1, SLED 12 SP1 +2 more 10.0.25-6.1
  • mysql SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES for SAP 11 SP3, SLES 11 SP4 +6 more 5.5.47-0.17.1
  • mariadb104 SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES 15 SP1-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS 10.4.30-150100.3.5.10

suse advisories SUSE-RU-2023:4991-1SUSE-RU-2023:3956-1SUSE-SU-2016:1619-1SUSE-SU-2016:1620-1SUSE-SU-2016:0348-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-0546 updated cvss 5.1

mysql: unspecified vulnerability in subcomponent: Client (CPU January 2016)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 mysql55-mysql Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 mysql, mysql-libs, mysql-test, mysql-bench, mysql-server, mysql-embedded Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse) mariadb-galera Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno) mariadb-galera Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) mariadb-galera, mariadb-galera-common, mariadb-galera-server
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) mariadb 5.5.47-1.el7_2, mariadb-libs 5.5.47-1.el7_2, mariadb-server 5.5.47-1.el7_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) mariadb-test 5.5.47-1.el7_2, mariadb-bench 5.5.47-1.el7_2, mariadb-embedded 5.5.47-1.el7_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) mariadb 5.5.47-1.el7_2, mariadb-libs 5.5.47-1.el7_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) mariadb-test 5.5.47-1.el7_2, mariadb-bench 5.5.47-1.el7_2, mariadb-server 5.5.47-1.el7_2, mariadb-embedded 5.5.47-1.el7_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) mariadb 5.5.47-1.el7_2, mariadb-libs 5.5.47-1.el7_2, mariadb-test 5.5.47-1.el7_2, mariadb-bench 5.5.47-1.el7_2, mariadb-server 5.5.47-1.el7_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) mariadb-embedded 5.5.47-1.el7_2
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) mariadb 5.5.47-1.el7_2, mariadb-libs 5.5.47-1.el7_2, mariadb-test 5.5.47-1.el7_2, mariadb-bench 5.5.47-1.el7_2, mariadb-server 5.5.47-1.el7_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) mariadb-embedded 5.5.47-1.el7_2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0534
  • Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) mysql55-mysql 5.5.50-1.el6, rh-mysql56-mysql 5.6.30-1.el6, mariadb55-mariadb 5.5.49-1.el6, mysql55-mysql-libs 5.5.50-1.el6, mysql55-mysql-test 5.5.50-1.el6, mysql55-mysql-bench 5.5.50-1.el6, +19 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) mysql55-mysql 5.5.50-1.el7, rh-mysql56-mysql 5.6.30-1.el7, mariadb55-mariadb 5.5.49-1.el7, mysql55-mysql-libs 5.5.50-1.el7, mysql55-mysql-test 5.5.50-1.el7, mysql55-mysql-bench 5.5.50-1.el7, +19 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6) mysql55-mysql 5.5.50-1.el6, rh-mysql56-mysql 5.6.30-1.el6, mariadb55-mariadb 5.5.49-1.el6, mysql55-mysql-libs 5.5.50-1.el6, mysql55-mysql-test 5.5.50-1.el6, mysql55-mysql-bench 5.5.50-1.el6, +19 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7) mysql55-mysql 5.5.50-1.el6, rh-mysql56-mysql 5.6.30-1.el6, mariadb55-mariadb 5.5.49-1.el6, mysql55-mysql-libs 5.5.50-1.el6, mysql55-mysql-test 5.5.50-1.el6, mysql55-mysql-bench 5.5.50-1.el6, +19 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.1) mysql55-mysql 5.5.50-1.el7, rh-mysql56-mysql 5.6.30-1.el7, mariadb55-mariadb 5.5.49-1.el7, mysql55-mysql-libs 5.5.50-1.el7, mysql55-mysql-test 5.5.50-1.el7, mysql55-mysql-bench 5.5.50-1.el7, +19 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.2) mysql55-mysql 5.5.50-1.el7, rh-mysql56-mysql 5.6.30-1.el7, mariadb55-mariadb 5.5.49-1.el7, mysql55-mysql-libs 5.5.50-1.el7, mysql55-mysql-test 5.5.50-1.el7, mysql55-mysql-bench 5.5.50-1.el7, +19 more
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) mysql55-mysql 5.5.50-1.el6, rh-mysql56-mysql 5.6.30-1.el6, mariadb55-mariadb 5.5.49-1.el6, mysql55-mysql-libs 5.5.50-1.el6, mysql55-mysql-test 5.5.50-1.el6, mysql55-mysql-bench 5.5.50-1.el6, +19 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) mysql55-mysql 5.5.50-1.el7, rh-mysql56-mysql 5.6.30-1.el7, mariadb55-mariadb 5.5.49-1.el7, mysql55-mysql-libs 5.5.50-1.el7, mysql55-mysql-test 5.5.50-1.el7, mysql55-mysql-bench 5.5.50-1.el7, +19 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:1132

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Exploit prediction

0.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 48% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

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References

Sources

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