CVE-2008-3963

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-09-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-134

Description

MySQL 5.0 before 5.0.66, 5.1 before 5.1.26, and 6.0 before 6.0.6 does not properly handle a b'' (b single-quote single-quote) token, aka an empty bit-string literal, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by using this token in a SQL statement.

Affected products

Mysql: 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.0.4, 5.0.5 (+16)
MySQL Server: 5.0.0-alpha, 5.0.6, 5.0.23, 5.0.25, 5.0.26, 5.0.30-sp1 (+36)

References

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=35658
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-es-5-0-66.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-26.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/news-6-0-6.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31769
http://secunia.com/advisories/32759
http://secunia.com/advisories/32769
http://secunia.com/advisories/34907
http://secunia.com/advisories/36566
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1783
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:094

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