Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-1249

Title: Dbd-Mysql Project Dbd-Mysql Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-1249.

CWE Category CWE-125

Published Date Feb 17, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.9 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.43%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-1249: The DBD::mysql module before 4.039 for Perl, when using server-side prepared statement support, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via vectors involving an unaligned number of placeholders in WHERE condition and output fields in SELECT expression.

Impacted Vendors

dbd-mysql_project 1

Reference Links

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/CAPTTOFU/DBD-mysql-4.039/Changes http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/16/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94350 https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql/commit/793b72b1a0baa5070adacaac0e12fd995a6fbabe https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-51 http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/CAPTTOFU/DBD-mysql-4.039/Changes http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/16/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94350 https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql/commit/793b72b1a0baa5070adacaac0e12fd995a6fbabe https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-51

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.9

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

HIGH

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns