CVE-2015-8949

Publication date 19 August 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libdbd-mysql-perl	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 4.033-1ubuntu0.1
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 4.025-1ubuntu0.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 4.020-1ubuntu0.1

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libdbd-mysql-perl	Upstream: cf0aa77

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3103-1
DBD::mysql vulnerabilities
13 October 2016