Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-10788

Title: Dbd-Mysql Project Dbd-Mysql Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-10788.

CWE Category CWE-416

Published Date Jul 01, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.63%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-10788: The DBD::mysql module through 4.043 for Perl allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering (1) certain error responses from a MySQL server or (2) a loss of a network connection to a MySQL server. The use-after-free defect was introduced by relying on incorrect Oracle mysql_stmt_close documentation and code examples.

Impacted Vendors

dbd-mysql_project 1

Reference Links

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/443 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99374 https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql/issues/120 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/443 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99374 https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql/issues/120

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity CRITICAL

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns