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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…
High7.5EPSS 2.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (18)
- DSA-1478 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 29443 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20080104 Multiple vulnerabilities in yaSSL 1.7.5 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 28324 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 3531 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 31681 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- yassl-hashwithtransformupdate-dos(39433) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://bugs.mysql.com/33814 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 27140 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 28597 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2008-0560 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 32222 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-23.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2780 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- USN-588-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- MDVSA-2008:150 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2008-10-09 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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