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CVE-2009-0922

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.

Published

2009-03-17T17:30:00.187

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 4.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-399

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	postgresql	postgresql	7.4.24	Yes
Application	postgresql	postgresql	8.0.20	Yes
Application	postgresql	postgresql	8.1.16	Yes
Application	postgresql	postgresql	8.2.12	Yes
Application	postgresql	postgresql	8.3.6	Yes

References

http://archives.postgresql.org//pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00176.php Exploit ([email protected])
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00172.php Exploit ([email protected])
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517405 ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html ([email protected])
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134124585221119&w=2 ([email protected])
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134124585221119&w=2 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/34453 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/35100 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-258808-1 ([email protected])
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020455.1-1 ([email protected])
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0086 ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:079 ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/11/4 ([email protected])
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1065 Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1067.html ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503598/100/0/threaded ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34090 Exploit, Patch ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021860 ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0767 Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1316 Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488156 ([email protected])
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10874 ([email protected])
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6252 ([email protected])
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00810.html ([email protected])
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00843.html ([email protected])
http://archives.postgresql.org//pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00176.php Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00172.php Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517405 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134124585221119&w=2 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134124585221119&w=2 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/34453 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/35100 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-258808-1 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020455.1-1 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0086 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:079 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/11/4 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1065 Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1067.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503598/100/0/threaded (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34090 Exploit, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021860 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0767 Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1316 Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488156 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10874 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6252 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00810.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00843.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)