Security Advisory SA38364 - MySQL yaSSL Certificate Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA38364

MySQL yaSSL Certificate Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA38364

Release Date

2010-01-28

Last Update

2010-02-08

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

DoS
System access

Where

From local network

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Remediation status

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Automated scanning

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Software:

MySQL 5.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2009-4484 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in MySQL, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the use of vulnerable yaSSL code.

Note: Successful exploitation requires that MySQL is compiled with SSL support.

For more information:
SA38344

Solution
Update to version 5.1.43 or 5.0.90.

Provided and/or discovered by
Evgeny Legerov, Intevydis

Changelog
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Original Advisory
MySQL:
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=50227
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mysql/mysql-server/mysql-5.0/revision/2837.1.1
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/news-5-0-90.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-43.html

Intevydis:
http://intevydis.blogspot.com/2010/01/mysq-yassl-stack-overflow.html

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