CVE-2008-0227

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Yassl: through 1.7.5

References

http://bugs.mysql.com/33814
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-23.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28324
http://secunia.com/advisories/28597
http://secunia.com/advisories/29443
http://secunia.com/advisories/32222
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3531
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1478
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:150
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485810/100/0/threaded

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