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Bug 589818 (CVE-2015-8949)

Summary: <dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.36.0: use-after-free
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor CC: perl
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/25/13
Whiteboard: B3 [glsa cve]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 600180    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2016-07-27 08:11:03 UTC
From ${URL} :


https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/50-Use-after-free-in-my_login-function-of-DBDmysql-Perl-module.html

DBD::mysql versions 4.033 and earlier have a use after free bug in the
my_login() function. DBD::mysql is a Perl module providing bindings to
the mysql database. The issue was fixed in version 4.034.

This issue was discovered with Address Sanitizer.

https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql/pull/45
Pull request / patch



@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-11-18 15:26:58 UTC
A fixed version is in tree: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/dev-perl/DBD-mysql?id=e3e3fa8bf0a23417959541cb54c1b098f4067e26

We will handle the stabilization in the recent sec bug 600180 and do cleanup afterwards.
Comment 2 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2017-01-23 03:21:59 UTC
This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201701-51 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-51
by GLSA coordinator Aaron Bauman (b-man).
Comment 3 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2017-01-23 03:23:13 UTC
This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201701-51 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-51
by GLSA coordinator Aaron Bauman (b-man).