Use After Free Affecting perl-DBD-MySQL package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.8% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-PERLDBDMYSQL-1346632
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed18 Nov 2016

Introduced: 18 Nov 2016

CVE-2016-1251  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 perl-DBD-MySQL.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl-DBD-MySQL package and not the perl-DBD-MySQL package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

There is a vulnerability of type use-after-free affecting DBD::mysql (aka DBD-mysql or the Database Interface (DBI) MySQL driver for Perl) 3.x and 4.x before 4.041 when used with mysql_server_prepare=1.