CVE-2007-4769
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.8 · CWE-189
6.8CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
The regular expression parser in TCL before 8.4.17, as used in PostgreSQL 8.2 before 8.2.6, 8.1 before 8.1.11, 8.0 before 8.0.15, and 7.4 before 7.4.19, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (backend crash) via an out-of-bounds backref number.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28359Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28376Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28437Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28438Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28454Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28455Advisory
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01420154
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00000.html