CVE-2008-0227: yassl

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2008-0227 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in yassl. EPSS estimates a 2.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84.4% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 10-01-2008
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.