CVE-2007-6304

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-12-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The federated engine in MySQL 5.0.x before 5.0.51a, 5.1.x before 5.1.23, and 6.0.x before 6.0.4, when performing a certain SHOW TABLE STATUS query, allows remote MySQL servers to cause a denial of service (federated handler crash and daemon crash) via a response that lacks the minimum required number of columns.

Affected products

Mysql: 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.0.4, 5.0.5 (+8)
MySQL Server: 5.0.0-alpha, 5.0.3-beta, 5.0.6, 5.0.7, 5.0.8, 5.0.9 (+26)

References

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=29801
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-es-5-0-52.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-23.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/news-6-0-4.html
http://lists.mysql.com/announce/502
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html
http://osvdb.org/42609
http://secunia.com/advisories/28063
http://secunia.com/advisories/28128
http://secunia.com/advisories/28343
http://secunia.com/advisories/28637
http://secunia.com/advisories/28739

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