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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…
Medium4.0EPSS 10.2%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 10.2% · top 4.3% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (24)
- http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1065 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1021860 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-2959 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:1067 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [pgsql-bugs] 20090227 Re: BUG #4680: Server crashed if using wrong (mismatch) conversion functions (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 34090 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10874 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- HPSBMU02781 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20090311 CVE request -- postgresql (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 258808 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- 34453 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2009-0767 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20090519 rPSA-2009-0086-1 postgresql postgresql-contrib postgresql-server (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517405 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- MDVSA-2009:079 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- [pgsql-bugs] 20090227 BUG #4680: Server crashed if using wrong (mismatch) conversion functions (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-2927 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 35100 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488156 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0086 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2009-1316 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6252 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2009:009 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 1020455 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_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)
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