CVE-2009-1341

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-04-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Memory leak in the dequote_bytea function in quote.c in the DBD::Pg (aka DBD-Pg or libdbd-pg-perl) module before 2.0.0 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by fetching data with BYTEA columns.

Affected products

Debian Libdbd-Pg-Perl: through 1.4.9; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.51 (+50)

References

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/TURNSTEP/DBD-Pg-2.13.1/Changes
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21392
http://secunia.com/advisories/34909
http://secunia.com/advisories/35058
http://secunia.com/advisories/35685
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libd/libdbd-pg-perl/libdbd-pg-perl_1.49-2+etch1.diff.gz
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1780
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0479.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1067.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34757
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50387

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