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mysql -- FTS request denial of service vulnerability

Description:

A special crafted MySQL FTS request can cause the server to crash. Malicious MySQL users can abuse this bug in a denial of service attack against systems running an affected MySQL daemon.

Note that because this bug is related to the parsing of requests, it may happen that this bug is triggered accidently by a user when he or she makes a typo.

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portaudit: mysql -- FTS request denial of service vulnerability

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>