CVE-2008-0227 Information

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.

Reference

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