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CVE-2002-1398

• 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: 2003-01-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the date parser for PostgreSQL before 7.2.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long date string, aka a vulnerability "in handling long datetime input."

Affected products

• PostgreSQL: 6.3.2, 6.5.3, 7.0.3, 7.1, 7.1.1, 7.1.2 (+3)

References

• http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2002-08/msg00004.php
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102978152712430&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102996089613404&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103021186622725&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103036987114437&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=postgresql-announce&m=103062536330644
• http://secunia.com/advisories/8034
• http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-165
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2002_038_postgresql.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-001.html
• http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2002-08/msg00004.php
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102978152712430&w=2

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