CVE-2015-8949

perl-DBD-MySQL: Use after free when my_login fails

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

9.8

CVSS 3.0

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Published · November 14, 2015

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the my_login function in DBD::mysql before 4.033_01 allows attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging a call to mysql_errno after a failure of my_login.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.0 · 2.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CWE-416 · Use After Free