CVE-2008-0226: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 91.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in yaSSL 1.7.5 and earlier, as used in MySQL and possibly other products, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) the ProcessOldClientHello function in handshake.cpp or (2) "input_buffer& operator>>" in yassl_imp.cpp.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.5.4 only
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 6.06 only; version 6.10 only; version 7.04 only; version 7.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 5.0 only
• MySQL MySQL: version 5.0.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.0.2 only; version 5.0.3 only; version 5.0.4 only; version 5.0.5 only; …
• Oracle MySQL: version 5.0.23 only; version 5.0.25 only; version 5.0.26 only; version 5.0.28 only; version 5.0.30 only; version 5.0.32 only; …
• Yassl Yassl: up to and including 1.7.5

Published 2008-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.