CVE-2002-0969: Oracle MySQL

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in MySQL daemon (mysqld) before 3.23.50, and 4.0 beta before 4.02, on the Win32 platform, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long "datadir" parameter in the my.ini initialization file, whose permissions on Windows allow Full Control to the Everyone group.

Affected products

• Oracle MySQL: before 3.23.50 (fixed in 3.23.50); from 4.0.0, up to and including 4.0.2

Published 2002-10-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.