CVE-2003-0780: Conectiva Linux

High severity, CVSS 9.0. EPSS: 78.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in get_salt_from_password from sql_acl.cc for MySQL 4.0.14 and earlier, and 3.23.x, allows attackers with ALTER TABLE privileges to execute arbitrary code via a long Password field.

Affected products

• Conectiva Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• MySQL MySQL: version 4.1.0 only
• Oracle MySQL: version 3.23 only; version 3.23.2 only; version 3.23.3 only; version 3.23.4 only; version 3.23.5 only; version 3.23.8 only; …

Published 2003-09-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.