National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2003-0780
Orirignal release date: 2003-09-22
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    Buffer overflow in get_salt_from_password from sql_acl.cc for MySQL 4.0.14 and earlier, and 3.23.x, allows attackers with ALTER TABLE privileges to execute arbitrary code via a long Password field.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 10 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: input buffer="1"
    Impact Type: sec_prot admin="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    MySQL (MySQL AB)
    Conectiva Linux (Conectiva)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-0780