Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting mysql package, versions [,5.1.32)[6.0.0,6.0.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
10.18% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MYSQL-2334681
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Mar 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Mar 2009

CVE-2009-0819  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mysql to version 5.1.32, 6.0.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) sql/item_xmlfunc.cc in MySQL 5.1 before 5.1.32 and 6.0 before 6.0.10 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) via "an XPath expression employing a scalar expression as a FilterExpr with ExtractValue() or UpdateXML()," which triggers an assertion failure.

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