CVE-2004-0837 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2004-0837?

CVE-2004-0837 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 16 Oct 2004. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

MySQL 4.x before 4.0.21, and 3.x before 3.23.49, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or hang) via multiple threads that simultaneously alter MERGE table UNIONs.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-0837?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Mysql Mysql, Oracle Mysql.

How do I fix CVE-2004-0837?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2004-0837 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-0837 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-8p34-xxjh-4hrg.