CVE-2010-3840: MySQL

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

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.

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.