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CVE-2010-3681

Oracle MySQL 5.1 before 5.1.49 and 5.5 before 5.5.5 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (mysqld daemon crash) by using the HANDLER interface and performing "alternate reads from two indexes on a table," which triggers an assertion failure.

Security Impact Summary

CVE-2010-3681 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 2 products from mysql, from oracle organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.

Historical Context

Documented in 2011, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.

Published

2011-01-11T20:00:01.557

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 4.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	mysql	mysql	5.1.5	Yes
Application	mysql	mysql	5.1.23	Yes
Application	mysql	mysql	5.1.31	Yes
Application	mysql	mysql	5.1.32	Yes
Application	mysql	mysql	5.1.34	Yes
Application	mysql	mysql	5.1.37	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.1	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.2	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.3	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.4	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.6	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.7	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.8	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.9	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.10	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.11	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.12	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.13	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.14	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.15	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.16	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.17	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.18	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.19	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.20	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.21	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.22	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.23	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.24	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.25	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.26	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.27	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.28	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.29	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.30	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.31	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.33	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.34	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.35	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.36	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.37	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.38	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.39	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.40	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.40	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.41	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.42	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.43	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.43	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.44	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.45	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.46	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.46	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.47	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.1.48	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.5.0	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.5.1	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.5.2	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.5.3	Yes
Application	oracle	mysql	5.5.4	Yes

References

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=54007 Exploit, Patch ([email protected])
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-49.html ([email protected])
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-5.html ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00005.html ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/42875 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/42936 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2143 ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:155 ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:222 ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:012 ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/28/10 Exploit, Patch ([email protected])
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0824.html ([email protected])
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0825.html ([email protected])
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0164.html ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42633 ([email protected])
http://www.turbolinux.co.jp/security/2011/TLSA-2011-3j.txt Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1017-1 ([email protected])
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1397-1 ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0105 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0133 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0170 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0345 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628680 Exploit, Patch ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64685 ([email protected])
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=54007 Exploit, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-49.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-5.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00005.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/42875 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/42936 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2143 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:155 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:222 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:012 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/28/10 Exploit, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0824.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0825.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0164.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42633 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.turbolinux.co.jp/security/2011/TLSA-2011-3j.txt Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1017-1 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1397-1 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0105 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0133 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0170 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0345 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628680 Exploit, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64685 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

How SecUtils Interprets This CVE

SecUtils normalizes and enriches National Vulnerability Database (NVD) records by standardizing vendor and product identifiers, aggregating vulnerability metadata from both NVD and MITRE sources, and providing structured context for security teams. For mysql's affected products, we extract Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) data, Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) classifications, CVSS severity metrics, and reference data to enable rapid vulnerability prioritization and asset correlation. This record contains no exploit code, proof-of-concept instructions, or attack methodologies—only defensive intelligence necessary for patch management, risk assessment, and security operations.