CVE-2004-0836
HIGH severity · CVSS 10 · Memory corruption
10CVSS HIGH
Summary
Buffer overflow in the mysql_real_connect function in MySQL 4.x before 4.0.21, and 3.x before 3.23.49, allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a DNS response with a large address length (h_length).
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)10%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=4017Advisory
- http://lists.mysql.com/internals/14726Advisory
- http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000892
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110140517515735&w=2Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/12305/Advisory
- http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-018.shtml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-562Advisory
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-22.xmlAdvisory