Bug 1399580 (CVE-2016-1251) - CVE-2016-1251 perl-DBD-MySQL: Use after free when using prepared statements
Summary: CVE-2016-1251 perl-DBD-MySQL: Use after free when using prepared statements
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-1251
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1399581 1405899
Blocks: 1399583
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Reported: 2016-11-29 10:41 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:58 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: perl-DBD-MySQL 4.041
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:02:45 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-11-29 10:41:15 UTC
A use after free vulnerability when using prepared statements was found in DBD::mysql. Function dbd_st_fetch() via Renew() can reallocate output buffer for mysql_stmt_fetch() call, but it does not update pointer to that buffer in imp_sth->stmt structure initialized by mysql_stmt_bind_result() function, which leads to use after free in any mysql function which access imp_sth->stmt structure.

This vulnerability is present in all releases at least back to versions 3.0 of the driver, which were released in 2005.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql/commit/3619c170461a3107a258d1fd2d00ed4832adb1b1

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/536

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-11-29 10:41:44 UTC
Created perl-DBD-MySQL tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1399581]

Comment 7 Dhiru Kholia 2017-01-04 05:04:33 UTC
Mitigation:

This problem is only exposed when the user uses server-side prepared statement support (mysql_server_prepare=1), which is NOT default behavior and was turned off back for all drivers per MySQL AB decision in 2006 due to issues with server-side prepared statements in the server.

Use the default driver setting which uses emulated prepared statements.


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