CVE-2004-0956

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

MySQL before 4.0.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a MATCH AGAINST query with an opening double quote but no closing double quote.

Affected products

MySQL Server: 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.5 (+17)
Suse Linux: 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2
Ubuntu Linux: 4.1

References

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=3870
http://lists.mysql.com/packagers/202
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-22.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_01_sr.html
http://www.trustix.net/errata/2004/0054/
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17768
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=3870
http://lists.mysql.com/packagers/202
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-22.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_01_sr.html
http://www.trustix.net/errata/2004/0054/
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17768

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