CVE-2009-0922

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-03-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

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.

Affected products

PostgreSQL: 7.4.24, 8.0.20, 8.1.16, 8.2.12, 8.3.6

References

http://archives.postgresql.org//pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00176.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00172.php
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517405
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134124585221119&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/34453
http://secunia.com/advisories/35100
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-258808-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020455.1-1
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0086
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:079
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/11/4

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