CVE-2021-2471: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

October 20, 2021 (updated April 28, 2022)

Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all MySQL Connectors accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DoS) of MySQL Connectors.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-2471
www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html

Code Behaviors & Features

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