Explain CVE-2016-0546
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.
Affected Products: n/a
References: [{'name': 'SUSE-SU-2016:1620', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_SUSE'], 'url': 'http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00034.html'}, {'name': 'RHSA-2016:1481', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_REDHAT'], 'url': 'http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1481.html'}, {'name': 'openSUSE-SU-2016:0367', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_SUSE'], 'url': 'http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00015.html'}, {'name': 'RHSA-2016:1132', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_REDHAT'], 'url': 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132'}, {'name': 'DSA-3459', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_DEBIAN'], 'url': 'http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3459'}, {'name': '1034708', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'x_refsource_SECTRACK'], 'url': 'http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034708'}, {'name': 'RHSA-2016:0534', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_REDHAT'], 'url': 'http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0534.html'}, {'tags': ['x_refsource_CONFIRM'], 'url': 'http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html'}, {'name': 'SUSE-SU-2016:1619', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_SUSE'], 'url': 'http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00033.html'}, {'tags': ['x_refsource_CONFIRM'], 'url': 'http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html'}, {'name': 'RHSA-2016:1480', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_REDHAT'], 'url': 'http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1480.html'}, {'tags': ['x_refsource_CONFIRM'], 'url': 'https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/0dbd5a8797ed4bd18e8b883988fb62177eb0f73f'}, {'name': 'openSUSE-SU-2016:1664', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_SUSE'], 'url': 'http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00051.html'}, {'tags': ['x_refsource_CONFIRM'], 'url': 'http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html'}, {'name': '81066', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'x_refsource_BID'], 'url': 'http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81066'}, {'tags': ['x_refsource_CONFIRM'], 'url': 'https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mdb-10023-rn/'}, {'name': 'USN-2881-1', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_UBUNTU'], 'url': 'http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2881-1'}, {'tags': ['x_refsource_CONFIRM'], 'url': 'https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301493'}, {'name': 'openSUSE-SU-2016:0377', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_SUSE'], 'url': 'http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00016.html'}, {'name': 'DSA-3453', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_DEBIAN'], 'url': 'http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3453'}, {'tags': ['x_refsource_CONFIRM'], 'url': 'https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-5547-release-notes/'}, {'tags': ['x_refsource_CONFIRM'], 'url': 'https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-47.html'}, {'name': 'openSUSE-SU-2016:1686', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_SUSE'], 'url': 'http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00053.html'}, {'tags': ['x_refsource_CONFIRM'], 'url': 'https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-10110-release-notes/'}, {'name': 'RHSA-2016:0705', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_REDHAT'], 'url': 'http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0705.html'}, {'tags': ['x_refsource_CONFIRM'], 'url': 'https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-28.html'}]
CVE State: PUBLISHED