CVE-2009-0922

Public Exploit

Description

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.

Category

4.0
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 8.64% Top 10%
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Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
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References

Link Tags
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1065 patch vendor advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021860 vdb entry
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00843.html vendor advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1067.html vendor advisory
http://archives.postgresql.org//pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00176.php mailing list exploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34090 exploit vdb entry patch
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10874 vdb entry signature
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134124585221119&w=2 vendor advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/11/4 mailing list
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-258808-1 vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/34453 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0767 vdb entry patch vendor advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503598/100/0/threaded mailing list
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517405
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:079 vendor advisory
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00172.php mailing list exploit
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00810.html vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/35100 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488156
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0086
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1316 vdb entry patch vendor advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6252 vdb entry signature
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html vendor advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020455.1-1 vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2009-0922?
CVE-2009-0922 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2009-0922?
To fix CVE-2009-0922, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2009-0922 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2009-0922 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~9% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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