CVE-2006-1518: MySQL

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 38.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the open_table function in sql_base.cc in MySQL 5.0.x up to 5.0.20 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted COM_TABLE_DUMP packets with invalid length values.

Affected products

• MySQL MySQL: version 5.0.1 only; version 5.0.2 only; version 5.0.3 only; version 5.0.4 only; version 5.0.5 only; version 5.0.10 only; …
• Oracle MySQL: version 5.0.0 only; version 5.0.3 only; version 5.0.6 only; version 5.0.7 only; version 5.0.8 only; version 5.0.9 only; …

Published 2006-05-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.