CVE-2010-4628 Information

Description

member.php in MyBB (aka MyBulletinBoard) before 1.4.12 makes a certain superfluous call to the SQL COUNT function which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by making requests to member.php that trigger scans of the entire users table.

Reference

http://blog.mybb.com/2010/04/13/mybb-1-4-12-released-security-maintenance-update/ http://dev.mybboard.net/issues/662 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/08/7 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/11/8 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/06/2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64514