CVE-2015-8949

Use-after-free vulnerability in the my_login function in DBD::mysql before 4.033_01 allows attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging a call to mysql_errno after a failure of my_login.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3635
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/25/13
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/27/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92118
• https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/50-Use-after-free-in-my_login-function-of-DBDmysql-Perl-module.html
• https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql/blob/4.033_01/Changes
• https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql/commit/cf0aa7751f6ef8445e9310a64b14dc81460ca156
• https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql/pull/45
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-51
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3635
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/25/13
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/27/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92118
• https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/50-Use-after-free-in-my_login-function-of-DBDmysql-Perl-module.html
• https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql/blob/4.033_01/Changes
• https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql/commit/cf0aa7751f6ef8445e9310a64b14dc81460ca156
• https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql/pull/45
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-51