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CVE-2016-1249

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-02-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The DBD::mysql module before 4.039 for Perl, when using server-side prepared statement support, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via vectors involving an unaligned number of placeholders in WHERE condition and output fields in SELECT expression.

Affected products

• Dbd-Mysql Project Dbd-Mysql: through 4.038_01

References

• http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/CAPTTOFU/DBD-mysql-4.039/Changes
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/16/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94350
• https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql/commit/793b72b1a0baa5070adacaac0e12fd995a6fbabe
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-51
• http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/CAPTTOFU/DBD-mysql-4.039/Changes
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/16/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94350
• https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql/commit/793b72b1a0baa5070adacaac0e12fd995a6fbabe
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-51

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