Vigil@nce - Percona Server for MySQL: buffer overflow via Database Name Special Characters
April 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Percona Server, XtraBackup, XtraDB Cluster.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: user access/rights, denial of service on service,
denial of service on client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 19/02/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a buffer overflow via Database Name
Special Characters of Percona Server for MySQL, in order to
trigger a denial of service, and possibly to run code.
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