CVE-2010-3838: MySQL

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

MySQL 5.0 before 5.0.92, 5.1 before 5.1.51, and 5.5 before 5.5.6 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (server crash) via a query that uses the (1) GREATEST or (2) LEAST function with a mixed list of numeric and LONGBLOB arguments, which is not properly handled when the function's result is "processed using an intermediate temporary table."

Affected products

• MySQL MySQL: version 5.1.5 only; version 5.1.23 only; version 5.1.31 only; version 5.1.32 only; version 5.1.34 only; version 5.1.37 only; …
• Oracle MySQL: version 5.1 only; version 5.1.1 only; version 5.1.2 only; version 5.1.3 only; version 5.1.4 only; version 5.1.6 only; …

Published 2011-01-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.