Bug 205968 – dev-db/mysql dev-db/mysql-community yaSSL Multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-{0226,0227})

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2008-01-15 15:17:18 UTC]

CVE-2008-0227 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-0227):
  yaSSL 1.7.5 and earlier, as used in MySQL and possibly other products, allows
  remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a Hello packet
  containing a large size value, which triggers a buffer over-read in the
  HASHwithTransform::Update function in hash.cpp.

[Comment 1 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2008-01-15 15:27:13 UTC]

CVE-2008-0226:
  Multiple buffer overflows in yaSSL 1.7.5 and earlier, as used in MySQL
  and possibly other products, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary
  code via (1) the ProcessOldClientHello function in handshake.cpp or
  (2) "input_buffer& operator>>" in yassl_imp.cpp.

[Comment 2 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2008-01-15 15:30:28 UTC]

mysql herd, are there circumstances under which mysql builds with yassl (and not openssl) support?

[Comment 3 Robin Johnson 2008-01-15 15:37:14 UTC]

No, we exclusively use openssl and not yaSSL.

[Comment 4 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2008-01-15 15:49:18 UTC]

That's what I like to hear :-)

INVALID then!