CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-4484

7.5 HIGH Published 2009-12-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-12-30
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the CertDecoder::GetName function in src/asn.cpp in TaoCrypt in yaSSL before 1.9.9, as used in mysqld in MySQL 5.0.x before 5.0.90, MySQL 5.1.x before 5.1.43, MySQL 5.5.x through 5.5.0-m2, and other products, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and daemon crash) by establishing an SSL connection and sending an X.509 client certificate with a crafted name field, as demonstrated by mysql_overflow1.py and the vd_mysql5 module in VulnDisco Pack Professional 8.11. NOTE: this was originally reported for MySQL 5.0.51a.

Affected configurations

• oracle mysql (>= 5.0.0 < 5.0.90) • oracle mysql (>= 5.1.0 < 5.1.43) • oracle mysql 5.0.0 • wolfssl yassl (< 1.9.9) • canonical ubuntu linux 6.06 • canonical ubuntu linux 8.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 8.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 9.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 9.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 10.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 10.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 11.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 11.10 • debian debian linux 4.0 • debian debian linux 5.0 • debian debian linux 6.0 • mariadb mariadb (>= 5.1 < 5.1.42)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References