CVE-2009-2943

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-10-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The postgresql-ocaml bindings 1.5.4, 1.7.0, and 1.12.1 for PostgreSQL libpq do not properly support the PQescapeStringConn function, which might allow remote attackers to leverage escaping issues involving multibyte character encodings.

Affected products

OCaml Postgresql-Ocaml: 1.5.4, 1.7.0, 1.12.1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/37048
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1909
http://www.osvdb.org/59029
http://secunia.com/advisories/37048
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1909
http://www.osvdb.org/59029

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