CVE-2015-8949

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2015-11-14
CWE:
CWE-416
Bugzilla:
1360279: CVE-2015-8949 perl-DBD-MySQL: Use after free when my_login fails

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Use-after-free vulnerability in the my_login function in DBD::mysql before 4.033_01 allows attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging a call to mysql_errno after a failure of my_login.

Find out more about CVE-2015-8949 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 2.6
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 3.7
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-perl520-perl-DBD-MySQL Will not fix
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux perl516-perl-DBD-MySQL Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perl-DBD-MySQL Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perl-DBD-MySQL Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 perl-DBD-MySQL Not affected

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