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CVE-2002-0972

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-09-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflows in PostgreSQL 7.2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via long arguments to the functions (1) lpad or (2) rpad.

Affected products

• PostgreSQL: 6.3.2, 6.5.3, 7.1, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.2 (+1)

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102987608300785&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/8034
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-001.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102987608300785&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/8034
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-001.html

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