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.

Published: 2016-01-20 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2016-0546 is rated Moderate Risk (44/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.57%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2016-0546

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.24% 0.57% +0.33%
2 2025-07-06 0.27% 0.24% -0.03%
3 2025-06-03 — 0.27% —

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2016-0546

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.2 2.0 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
 3.9 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2016-0546

OS Trackers for CVE-2016-0546

vendor priority summary link
redhat low — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0546
suse high CVE-2016-0546 severity important: SUSE including 188 source package names (4.0.0:libmysqlclient18-10.0.25-6.1, beta1:libmysqlclient18-10.0.25-6.1, …), 491 product×package rows across 81 product lines (Container caasp/v4/salt-master, Container caasp/v4/velum, … (81 product lines)): Fixed 366, Known Not Affected 125. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0546/
ubuntu medium CVE-2016-0546 medium priority: Ubuntu including 7 source packages (mariadb-10.0, mariadb-5.5, …), 161 status rows across 23 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, questing, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 132, released 11, ignored 7, needs-triage 5, not-affected 4, needed 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-0546

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2016-0546

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
canonical ubuntu_linux 12.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu_linux 14.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu_linux 15.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu_linux 15.10 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mariadb mariadb >= 5.5.20, < 5.5.47 cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mariadb mariadb >= 10.0.0, < 10.0.23 cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mariadb mariadb >= 10.1.0, < 10.1.10 cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux 6.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle mysql >= 5.5.0, <= 5.5.46 cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle mysql >= 5.6.0, <= 5.6.27 cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle mysql >= 5.7.0, <= 5.7.9 cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle solaris 11.3 cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle linux 7 cpe:2.3:o:oracle:linux:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse leap 42.1 cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse opensuse 13.2 cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux_hpc_node 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux_hpc_node_eus 7.2 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node_eus:7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux_server 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux_server_aus 7.2 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux_server_eus 7.2 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux_workstation 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian_linux 8.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2016-0546

URL Tags
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00015.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00016.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00033.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00034.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00051.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00053.html Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0534.html Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0705.html Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1480.html Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1481.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3453 Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3459 Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81066 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034708 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2881-1 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301493 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-47.html Vendor Advisory
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-28.html Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/0dbd5a8797ed4bd18e8b883988fb62177eb0f73f Third Party Advisory
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-10110-release-notes/ Vendor Advisory
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-5547-release-notes/ Vendor Advisory
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mdb-10023-rn/ Vendor Advisory
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