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CVE-2010-3840

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-3840 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in MySQL 5.1 before version 5.1.51, affecting both Oracle and MySQL distributions. An authenticated remote attacker can crash the server by providing specially crafted Well-Known Binary (WKB) data to the PolyFromWKB function, manipulating the number of line strings or points. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0, indicating a low severity, with an attack vector over the network, low attack complexity, requiring authentication, and resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

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
3.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0339 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 21,977 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 (4)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: mysql-0:4.1.22-2.el4_8.4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: mysql-0:5.0.77-4.el5_5.4
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-2010-3840Moderate

MySQL: crash when loading data into geometry function PolyFromWKB() (MySQL Bug#51875)

Mar 9, 2010

References

bugs.mysql.com / bug.php
Patch
dev.mysql.com / doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-51.html
lists.mysql.com / commits/117094
Patch
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/42875
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/42936
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/64838
debian.org / security/2011/dsa-2143
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0824.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0825.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-0164.html
securityfocus.com / bid/43676
turbolinux.co.jp / security/2011/TLSA-2011-3j.txt
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1017-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1397-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0105
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0170
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0345
Vendor Advisory