Overview
A vulnerability in MySQL could permit a malicious user to execute arbitrary code on the system.
Description
MySQL is a database system. MySQL contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the processing of the password field of the MySQL database, specifically "SET PASSWORD". A malicious user who has the permissions to execute the "ALTER TABLE" command on tables in the "mysql" database may be able to exploit this vulnerability. MySQL3 versions 3.0.57 and earlier and MySQL4 versions 4.0.14 and earlier are reported to be vulnerable. An exploit has been posted publicly |
Impact
Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow the malicious user to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the mysqld process, by default user "mysql". |
Solution
This issue is resolved in MySQL versions 3.23.58 and 4.0.15. Upgrade or apply a patch as recommended by your vendor. |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
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| Temporal | ||
| Environmental |
References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Jedi/Sector One for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Jason A Rafail.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2003-0780 |
| Severity Metric: | 1.69 |
| Date Public: | 2003-09-10 |
| Date First Published: | 2003-09-15 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2003-09-15 17:48 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 6 |