Bug #27898 UPDATEXML Crashes the Server!
Submitted: 17 Apr 2007 18:56 Modified: 2 Jun 2007 14:18
Reporter: Roland Bouman Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: XML functions Severity:S1 (Critical)
Version:5.1.16,5.1.17,5.1.18bk OS:Linux
Assigned to: Alexander Barkov CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: crash, DoS, updatexml

File: Maximum allowed size is 50MB.
Description:
Privacy:

If the data you need to attach is more than 50MB, you should create a compressed archive of the data, split it to 50MB chunks, and upload each of them as a separate attachment.

To split a large file: