CVE-2010-3839

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-01-14 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

MySQL 5.1 before 5.1.51 and 5.5 before 5.5.6 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via multiple invocations of a (1) prepared statement or (2) stored procedure that creates a query with nested JOIN statements.

Affected products

Mysql: 5.1.5, 5.1.23, 5.1.31, 5.1.32, 5.1.34, 5.1.37
MySQL Server: 5.1, 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.3, 5.1.4, 5.1.6 (+53)

References

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=53544
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://secunia.com/advisories/42936
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
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0164.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43676
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1017-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1397-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0170

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