CVE-2004-0956 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in MySQL versions prior to 4.0.20, affecting various Oracle, SUSE, and Ubuntu distributions. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash the MySQL application by submitting a malformed MATCH AGAINST query containing an unclosed double quote. While rated with a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity) due to its low attack complexity and network accessibility, the impact is limited to application availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or media coverage, though it has garnered significant community discussion on GitHub.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:4.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:4.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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