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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2022-24052

High
7.8/10

Summary

MariaDB 10.2.x prior to 10.2.42, 10.3.x prior to 10.3.33, 10.4.x prior to 10.4.23, 10.5.x prior to 10.5.14, 10.6.x prior to 10.6.6, 10.7.x prior to 10.7.2, and 10.8.0 CONNECT Storage Engine Heap-based Buffer Overflow Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of MariaDB. Authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. A specific flaw exists within the processing of SQL queries. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed-length heap-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of the service account. This issue as assigned to ZDI-CAN-16190.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published