Trilogy is a client library for MySQL. When authenticating, a malicious server could return a specially crafted authentication packet, causing the client to read and return up to 12 bytes of data from an uninitialized variable in stack memory. Users of the trilogy gem should upgrade to version 2.1.1 This issue can be avoided by only connecting to trusted servers.
Impact When authenticating, a malicious server could return a specially crafted authentication packet, causing the client to read and return up to 12 bytes of data from an uninitialized variable in stack memory. Patches Users of the trilogy gem should upgrade to version 2.1.1 Workarounds This issue can be avoided by only connecting to trusted servers. Acknowledgements We would like to thank Sergei Volokitin for reporting this vulnerability For more …