CVE-2009-0922 (GCVE-0-2009-0922)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-03-17 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 04:57
VLAI
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021860 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
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http://archives.postgresql.org//pgsql-bugs/2009-0… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34090 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517405 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
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https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetk… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT
Date Public
2009-03-11 00:00
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