Out-of-bounds read in CampusInsight - CVE-2019-5278
Published: December 4, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU23395
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-5278
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition in the Advanced Packages feature of the Gauss100 OLTP database. A remote authenticated attacker with permission to execute advanced packages can send elaborate SQL statements to the database, trigger out-of-bounds read error and cause the database to crash.
Affected software
CampusInsight
How to mitigate CVE-2019-5278
Install updates from vendor's website.
CampusInsight - update to V100R019C00SPC200