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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-0227 Detail

Description

yaSSL 1.7.5 and earlier, as used in MySQL and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a Hello packet containing a large size value, which triggers a buffer over-read in the HASHwithTransform::Update function in hash.cpp.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/11/2008)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect versions of MySQL as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, 5, Red Hat Application Stack v1, and v2, as they are not built with yaSSL support.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://bugs.mysql.com/33814 CVE, MITRE
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-23.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/28324 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28597 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29443 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/32222 CVE, MITRE
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3531 CVE, MITRE
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216 CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1478 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:150 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485810/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27140 CVE, MITRE Exploit 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-588-1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0560/references CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39433 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-0227
NVD Published Date:
01/10/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE