CVE-2008-0227
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 2.5%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 2.5% (85th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-0239)
- Published
- January 10, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-0239 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- yassl / yassl
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(Vendor Advisory)
- 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
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27140(Exploit)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-588-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0560/references
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39433
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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