CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0969

7.8 HIGH Published 2002-10-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-10-11
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-120

Description

Buffer overflow in MySQL daemon (mysqld) before 3.23.50, and 4.0 beta before 4.02, on the Win32 platform, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long "datadir" parameter in the my.ini initialization file, whose permissions on Windows allow Full Control to the Everyone group.

Affected configurations

• oracle mysql (< 3.23.50) • oracle mysql (>= 4.0.0 <= 4.0.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness

References