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title: "CVE-2007-1420\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2007-1420

Publication date 12 March 2007

Last updated 17 July 2025

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

MySQL 5.x before 5.0.36 allows local users to cause a denial of service
(database crash) by performing information\_schema table subselects and
using ORDER BY to sort a single-row result, which prevents certain
structure elements from being initialized and triggers a NULL dereference
in the filesort function.

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| mysql-dfsg-5.0 | 7.04 feisty | Fixed 5.0.38-0ubuntu1 |
| 6.10 edgy | Fixed 5.0.24a-9ubuntu0.1 |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Fixed 5.0.22-0ubuntu6.06.3 |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1420)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-1420)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2007-1420)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-1420)

### Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

+ [USN-440-1](https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-440-1)
+ MySQL vulnerability
+ 22 March 2007

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-1420>