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CVE-2005-2558

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.6
4.6CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in the init_syms function in MySQL 4.0 before 4.0.25, 4.1 before 4.1.13, and 5.0 before 5.0.7-beta allows remote authenticated users who can create user-defined functions to execute arbitrary code via a long function_name field.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-August/035845.html ↗