CVE-2005-0245
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
Buffer overflow in gram.y for PostgreSQL 8.0.0 and earlier may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large number of arguments to a refcursor function (gram.y), which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0247.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)14%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://secunia.com/advisories/12948 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/12948Patch
- http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-01/msg00298.phpAdvisory
- http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-02/msg00049.phpAdvisory
- http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-01/msg00216.phpAdvisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-683Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110806034116082&w=2Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:040
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html