CVE-2002-0969

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

Buffer overflow in MySQL daemon (mysqld) before 3.23.50, and 4.0 beta before 4.02, on the Win32 platform, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long "datadir" parameter in the my.ini initialization file, whose permissions on Windows allow Full Control to the Everyone group.

Buffer overflow in MySQL daemon (mysqld) before 3.23.50, and 4.0 beta before 4.02, on the Win32 platform, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long "datadir" parameter in the my.ini initialization file, whose permissions on Windows allow Full Control to the Everyone group.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Oracle MySQL

First reported 22 years ago

2002-10-11 04:00:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-07 16:41:00

Affected Software

Oracle MySQL 3.23.49

3.23.49

Oracle MySQL 4.0.0

4.0.0

Oracle MySQL 4.0.1

4.0.1

References

20021002 wp-02-0003: MySQL Locally Exploitable Buffer Overflow

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

20021002 wp-02-0003: MySQL Locally Exploitable Buffer Overflow

mysql-myini-datadir-bo(10243)

Vendor Advisory

http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_News.html#News-3.23.x

5853

http://www.westpoint.ltd.uk/advisories/wp-02-0003.txt

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