Vulnerability CVE-2006-1516

Vulnerability CVE-2006-1516

Published: 2006-05-05 Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:

The check_connection function in sql_parse.cc in MySQL 4.0.x up to 4.0.26, 4.1.x up to 4.1.18, and 5.0.x up to 5.0.20 allows remote attackers to read portions of memory via a username without a trailing null byte, which causes a buffer over-read.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

	Topic	Author	Date
Low	MySQL Anonymous Login Handshake - Information Leakage.	Stefano Di Paola...	07.05.2006

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
5/10	2.9/10	10/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Remote	Low	No required
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
Partial	None	None

Affected software
Oracle -> Mysql
Mysql -> Mysql

References:

http://bugs.debian.org/365938

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/news-5-0-21.html

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jun/0011.html

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/840

http://securitytracker.com/id?1016017

http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.599377

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-236703-1

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1071

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1073

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1079

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-13.xml

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:084

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-06-02.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0544.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/432733/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434164/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17780

http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0028

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1633

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1326/references

http://www.wisec.it/vulns.php?page=7

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26236

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9918

https://usn.ubuntu.com/283-1/

Vulnerability CVE-2006-1516

The check_connection function in sql_parse.cc in MySQL 4.0.x up to 4.0.26, 4.1.x up to 4.1.18, and 5.0.x up to 5.0.20 allows remote attackers to read portions of memory via a username without a trailing null byte, which causes a buffer over-read.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

Low

MySQL Anonymous Login Handshake - Information Leakage.

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

5/10

2.9/10

10/10

Remote

Low

No required

Partial

None

None

Affected software

References: