CVE-2016-0546 is an unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle MySQL and MariaDB Client component. It affects Oracle MySQL 5.5.46 and earlier, 5.6.27 and earlier, and 5.7.9 and earlier; and MariaDB releases before 5.5.47, 10.0.23, and 10.1.10. The vendor-described issue allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability through unspecified vectors. Third-party researchers characterized it as multiple buffer overflows in the mysqlshow client utility when a database server returns an overly long table or database name; this characterization was not confirmed by Oracle. The vulnerability is associated with CWE-120.
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Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Client component.
Unspecified MySQL Client vulnerability.
Unspecified MySQL Client vulnerability.
Unspecified MySQL client vulnerability.
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