4 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
5.7 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.017 Low
EPSS
Percentile
87.8%
MySQL is prone to denial of service vulnerabilities.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:mysql:mysql";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.801572");
script_version("2024-03-04T14:37:58+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-03-04 14:37:58 +0000 (Mon, 04 Mar 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2011-01-21 14:38:54 +0100 (Fri, 21 Jan 2011)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2010-3835", "CVE-2010-3839");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_name("MySQL Denial of Service (infinite loop) Vulnerabilities");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/42875");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43676");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=54568");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-6.html");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-51.html");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2011 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Databases");
script_dependencies("mysql_version.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("MySQL/installed");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation could allow users to cause a denial of service and
to execute arbitrary code.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"MySQL 5.1 before 5.1.51 and 5.5 before 5.5.6.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaws are due to:
- Performing a user-variable assignment in a logical expression that is
calculated and stored in a temporary table for GROUP BY, then causing the
expression value to be used after the table is created, which causes the
expression to be re-evaluated instead of accessing its value from the table.
- An error in multiple invocations of a (1) prepared statement or (2) stored
procedure that creates a query with nested JOIN statements.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to MySQL version 5.1.51 or 5.5.6.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"MySQL is prone to denial of service vulnerabilities.");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if(!port = get_app_port(cpe:CPE))
exit(0);
if(!version = get_app_version(cpe:CPE, port:port))
exit(0);
version = eregmatch(pattern:"([0-9.a-z]+)", string:version);
if(!isnull(version[1])) {
if(version_in_range(version:version[1], test_version:"5.1",test_version2:"5.1.50") ||
version_in_range(version:version[1], test_version:"5.5",test_version2:"5.5.5")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:version[1], fixed_version:"5.1.51/5.5.6");
security_message(port:port, data:report);
exit(0);
}
}
exit(99);