CVE-2010-3833

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-01-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

MySQL 5.0 before 5.0.92, 5.1 before 5.1.51, and 5.5 before 5.5.6 does not properly propagate type errors, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) via crafted arguments to extreme-value functions such as (1) LEAST and (2) GREATEST, related to KILL_BAD_DATA and a "CREATE TABLE ... SELECT."

Affected products

Mysql: 5.1.5, 5.1.23, 5.1.31, 5.1.32, 5.1.34, 5.1.37 (+25)
MySQL Server: 5.1, 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.3, 5.1.4, 5.1.6 (+93)

References

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=55826
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/news-5-0-92.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-51.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-6.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Jun/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42875
http://secunia.com/advisories/42936
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4723
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2143
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:222
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:223
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0825.html

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