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Bug 589818 (CVE-2015-8949) - <dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.36.0: use-after-free
Summary: <dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.36.0: use-after-free
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2015-8949
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-sec...
Whiteboard: B3 [glsa cve]
Keywords:
Depends on: CVE-2016-1249
Blocks:
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Reported: 2016-07-27 08:11 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2017-01-23 03:23 UTC (History)
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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).