CVE-2004-2149 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in applications using the MySQL client library by sending prepared statements with excessive placeholders.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2004-2149?
CVE-2004-2149 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Mysql, published on 1 Jul 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Buffer overflow in the prepared statements API in libmysqlclient for MySQL 4.1.3 beta and 4.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of placeholders.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-2149?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Oracle Mysql.
How do I fix CVE-2004-2149?
No fix has been published for CVE-2004-2149 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2004-2149 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-2149 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Mysql
Sources
Also known as GHSA-hw54-rfjr-gw65.