CVE-2005-1409
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
PostgreSQL 7.3.x through 8.0.x gives public EXECUTE access to certain character conversion functions, which allows unprivileged users to call those functions with malicious values, with unknown impact, aka the "Character conversion vulnerability."
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
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://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2005-05/msg00001.php ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2005-05/msg00001.phpPatch
- http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.315Patch
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-433.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426302/30/6680/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13476
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0453
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10050