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CVE-2007-4769
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…
Medium6.8EPSS 3.6%
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- Updated
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- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.6% · top 10% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (38)
- MDVSA-2008:004 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- DSA-1460 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 27163 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1768 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0038 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 28454 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20080107 PostgreSQL 2007-01-07 Cumulative Security Release (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 28359 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.905 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2008:005 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- ADV-2008-0061 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 28679 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2008-0109 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 28376 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1810264&group_id=10894&atid=110894 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 103197 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- 28437 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 28455 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 28477 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 29638 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 28479 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=565440&group_id=10894 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-1463 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0040 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 20080115 rPSA-2008-0016-1 postgresql postgresql-server (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 28464 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 28698 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SSRT080006 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- 200559 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- USN-568-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-0552 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 28438 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- postgresql-backref-dos(39499) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1019157 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-0478 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- GLSA-200801-15 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1071 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9804 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .