CVE-2009-0922
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4 · CWE-399
4CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
PostgreSQL before 8.3.7, 8.2.13, 8.1.17, 8.0.21, and 7.4.25 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) by triggering a failure in the conversion of a localized error message to a client-specified encoding, as demonstrated using mismatched encoding conversion requests.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)10%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
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/34453Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35100Advisory
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517405
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134124585221119&w=2
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-258808-1
- http://archives.postgresql.org//pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00176.phpExploit
- http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00172.phpExploit