FreeBSD : Botan BER Decoder vulnerabilities (2004616d-f66c-11e5-b94c-001999f8d30b)

The botan developers reports : Excess memory allocation in BER decoder - The BER decoder would allocate a fairly arbitrary amount of memory in a length field, even if there was no chance the read request would succeed. This might cause the process to run out of memory or invoke the OOM killer...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: postgresql security update

Updated postgresql packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings,...

postgresql: substring() negative length argument buffer overflow

The bitsubstr function in backend/utils/adt/varbit.c in PostgreSQL 8.0.23, 8.1.11, and 8.3.8 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service daemon crash or have unspecified other impact via vectors involving a negative integer in the third argument, as demonstrated by a SELECT...

Buffer overflow

The bitsubstr function in backend/utils/adt/varbit.c in PostgreSQL 8.0.23, 8.1.11, and 8.3.8 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service daemon crash or have unspecified other impact via vectors involving a negative integer in the third argument, as demonstrated by a SELECT...

CVE-2010-0442

The bitsubstr function in backend/utils/adt/varbit.c in PostgreSQL 8.0.23, 8.1.11, and 8.3.8 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service daemon crash or have unspecified other impact via vectors involving a negative integer in the third argument, as demonstrated by a SELECT...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: mysql security and bug fix update

Updated mysql packages that fix various security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. MySQL is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. It consists of...

MySQL: Using an empty binary value leads to server crash

MySQL 5.0 before 5.0.66, 5.1 before 5.1.26, and 6.0 before 6.0.6 does not properly handle a b'' b single-quote single-quote token, aka an empty bit-string literal, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon crash by using this token in a SQL statement...

MySQL: Using an empty binary value leads to server crash

MySQL 5.0 before 5.0.66, 5.1 before 5.1.26, and 6.0 before 6.0.6 does not properly handle a b'' b single-quote single-quote token, aka an empty bit-string literal, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon crash by using this token in a SQL statement...

USN-671-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

It was discovered that MySQL could be made to overwrite existing table files in the data directory. An authenticated user could use the DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY options to possibly bypass privilege checks. This update alters table creation behaviour by disallowing the use of the MySQL...

CVE-2008-3963

MySQL 5.0 before 5.0.66, 5.1 before 5.1.26, and 6.0 before 6.0.6 does not properly handle a b'' b single-quote single-quote token, aka an empty bit-string literal, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon crash by using this token in a SQL statement...

mysql -- empty bit-string literal denial of service

MySQL reports: The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing an empty bit-string literal and can be exploited to crash the server via a specially crafted SQL statement...