MariaDB Connector/J: Rogue server can drive large heap allocations from server-declared lengths in OK packets
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- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Fix
- Fixed in 3.3.7, 3.4.5, 3.5.11
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
Summary
MariaDB Connector/J, the Java JDBC driver used to connect applications to MariaDB and MySQL databases, is affected. A malicious or compromised database server, or an attacker intercepting the connection, can cause client applications to allocate excessive memory, which may lead to heavy garbage-collection pressure or an OutOfMemoryError crash.
Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.
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MariaDB Connector/J is used to connect applications developed in Java to MariaDB and MySQL databases. From 3.0.0 until 3.3.7, 3.4.5, and 3.5.11, when CLIENT_SESSION_TRACK was negotiated, the OkPacket.parse() and OkPacket.parseWithInfo() paths allocated byte arrays using server-declared lengths for the OK packet info field and session-state variable names and values before confirming that the bytes remained in the packet. A malicious or compromised server, or a machine-in-the-middle attacker, could send a small OK packet declaring a much larger length and repeatedly force attacker-controlled heap allocations before the subsequent copy failed. This could create garbage-collection pressure or an OutOfMemoryError in the client application. This issue is fixed in versions 3.3.7, 3.4.5, and 3.5.11.
Timeline
- CVE published
- First seen by cve.now
Affected versions
- mariadb-corporation mariadb-connector-j
From 3.0.0 · fixed in 3.3.7; From 3.4.0 · fixed in 3.4.5; From 3.5.0 · fixed in 3.5.11