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CVE-2002-1398

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.6
4.6CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

Buffer overflow in the date parser for PostgreSQL before 7.2.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long date string, aka a vulnerability "in handling long datetime input."

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products we track (1)

PostgreSQL

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Additional information

Last checked: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:18:30 UTC