CVE-2009-4019

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 16.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-11-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

mysqld in MySQL 5.0.x before 5.0.88 and 5.1.x before 5.1.41 does not (1) properly handle errors during execution of certain SELECT statements with subqueries, and does not (2) preserve certain null_value flags during execution of statements that use the GeomFromWKB function, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted statement.

Affected products

Mysql: 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.0.4, 5.0.5 (+19)
MySQL Server: 5.0.0-alpha, 5.0.3-beta, 5.0.6, 5.0.7, 5.0.8, 5.0.11 (+50)

References

http://bugs.mysql.com/47780
http://bugs.mysql.com/48291
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/news-5-0-88.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-41.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00001.html
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125881733826437&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125883754215621&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125901161824278&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/37717
http://secunia.com/advisories/38517
http://secunia.com/advisories/38573

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