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CVE-2010-3679

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-3679 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Oracle MySQL versions prior to 5.1.49. Remote authenticated users can crash the mysqld daemon by providing specific malformed arguments to the BINLOG command, leading to an access of uninitialized memory. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0, indicating a low severity, as it requires authentication and only impacts availability. While there is an ExploitDB entry demonstrating the denial of service, there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.1.23CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.1.23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.1.31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.1.31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.1.32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.1.32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.1.34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mysql:mysql:5.1.34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
12.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-34521 · Aug 20, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1223 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 21,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: mysql-0:5.1.52-1.el6_0.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-3679Moderate

MySQL: Use of unassigned memory (valgrind errors / crash) by providing certain values to BINLOG statement (MySQL BZ#54393)

Sep 7, 2010

References

bugs.mysql.com / bug.php
Patch
dev.mysql.com / doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-49.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitPatch
secunia.com / advisories/42936
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/64687
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/09/28/10
ExploitPatch
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-0164.html
securityfocus.com / bid/42638
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1017-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1397-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0133
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0170
Vendor Advisory