CVE-2006-3081

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 25.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-06-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

mysqld in MySQL 4.1.x before 4.1.18, 5.0.x before 5.0.19, and 5.1.x before 5.1.6 allows remote authorized users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a NULL second argument to the str_to_date function.

Affected products

Mysql: 4.1.13, 4.1.15, 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3 (+2)
MySQL Server: 4.0.18, 4.1.4, 4.1.5, 4.1.7, 4.1.16, 5.0.18

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=373913
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=15828
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html
http://seclists.org/lists/fulldisclosure/2006/Jun/0434.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19929
http://secunia.com/advisories/20832
http://secunia.com/advisories/20871
http://secunia.com/advisories/24479
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1112
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:111
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0083.html

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