CVE-2004-0836

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-119 Buffer Errors

Publication date:

03/11/2004

Last modified:

03/04/2025

Description

Buffer overflow in the mysql_real_connect function in MySQL 4.x before 4.0.21, and 3.x before 3.23.49, allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a DNS response with a large address length (h_length).

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 10.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

10.00

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql::::::::	3.20 (including)	3.23.49 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql::::::::	4.0.0 (including)	4.0.21 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.0:::::::*

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CVE-2004-0836

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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