This is a small crash I found in MySQL 5.0.45 in the name_const function. I’ve tested this in a Windows 8 environment. However this function won’t allow performing select queries in latest versions. In older versions greater than or equal to 5.0.12 you can reproduce this issue.
I fuzzed the name_const() function and I noticed that when performing a conditional statement inside a sub query we can make the MySQL application freeze. Once we press ^c twice we get the error message. (more…)
