JVN#30994815

MyODBC Japanese Conversion Edition denial of service vulnerability

Overview

MyODBC is an ODBC driver that allows ODBC-compliant applications to communicate with a MySQL database. MyODBC Japanese Conversion Edition is a Windows version of the driver with additional Japanese encoding functionality released from SoftAgency.

MyODBC Japanese Conversion Edition contains a vulnerability which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service condition on a vulnerable server by sending a certain string as a response to a MySQL database.

Products Affected

• MyODBC Japanese Conversion Edition version 3.51.06, 2.50.29, 2.50.25

Development and maintenance of MyODBC Japanese Conversion Edition has finished. As MySQL 4.1 and higher automatically converts character encodings, we recommend that users use MySQL 4.1 or higher.

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Description

Impact

A remote attacker could cause a denial of service condition by sending a certain string in a response to a MySQL database.

Solution

Vendor Status

References

JPCERT/CC Addendum

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