CVE-2010-3840

medium
Published 2011-01-14 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.0

Description

The Gis_line_string::init_from_wkb function in sql/spatial.cc in MySQL 5.1 before 5.1.51 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (server crash) by calling the PolyFromWKB function with Well-Known Binary (WKB) data containing a crafted number of (1) line strings or (2) line points.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mysql mysqlmysql5.1.5
mysql mysqlmysql5.1.23
mysql mysqlmysql5.1.31
mysql mysqlmysql5.1.32
mysql mysqlmysql5.1.34
mysql mysqlmysql5.1.37
oracle oraclemysql5.1
oracle oraclemysql5.1.1
oracle oraclemysql5.1.2
oracle oraclemysql5.1.3
oracle oraclemysql5.1.4
oracle oraclemysql5.1.6
oracle oraclemysql5.1.7
oracle oraclemysql5.1.8
oracle oraclemysql5.1.9
oracle oraclemysql5.1.10
oracle oraclemysql5.1.11
oracle oraclemysql5.1.12
oracle oraclemysql5.1.13
oracle oraclemysql5.1.14
oracle oraclemysql5.1.15
oracle oraclemysql5.1.16
oracle oraclemysql5.1.17
oracle oraclemysql5.1.18
oracle oraclemysql5.1.19
oracle oraclemysql5.1.20
oracle oraclemysql5.1.21
oracle oraclemysql5.1.22
oracle oraclemysql5.1.23
oracle oraclemysql5.1.24
oracle oraclemysql5.1.25
oracle oraclemysql5.1.26
oracle oraclemysql5.1.27
oracle oraclemysql5.1.28
oracle oraclemysql5.1.29
oracle oraclemysql5.1.30
oracle oraclemysql5.1.31
oracle oraclemysql5.1.33
oracle oraclemysql5.1.34
oracle oraclemysql5.1.35
oracle oraclemysql5.1.36
oracle oraclemysql5.1.37
oracle oraclemysql5.1.38
oracle oraclemysql5.1.39
oracle oraclemysql5.1.40
oracle oraclemysql5.1.41
oracle oraclemysql5.1.42
oracle oraclemysql5.1.43
oracle oraclemysql5.1.44
oracle oraclemysql5.1.45
oracle oraclemysql5.1.46
oracle oraclemysql5.1.47
oracle oraclemysql5.1.48
oracle oraclemysql5.1.49
oracle oraclemysql5.1.50

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.