CVE-2005-0709

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 17.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

MySQL 4.0.23 and earlier, and 4.1.x up to 4.1.10, allows remote authenticated users with INSERT and DELETE privileges to execute arbitrary code by using CREATE FUNCTION to access libc calls, as demonstrated by using strcat, on_exit, and exit.

Affected products

Mysql: 4.1.0, 4.1.3, 4.1.10
MySQL Server: 3.23.49, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4 (+25)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2005-q1/0084.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Aug/msg00000.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111066115808506&w=2
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101864-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-707
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-19.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:060
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_19_mysql.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-334.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-348.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12781

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