CVE-2012-1151

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-09-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-134

Description

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in dbdimp.c in DBD::Pg (aka DBD-Pg or libdbd-pg-perl) module before 2.19.0 for Perl allow remote PostgreSQL database servers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via format string specifiers in (1) a crafted database warning to the pg_warn function or (2) a crafted DBD statement to the dbd_st_prepare function.

Affected products

perl: through 2.18.1; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.52 (+113)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=661536
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/TURNSTEP/DBD-Pg-2.19.1/Changes
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1116.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48307
http://secunia.com/advisories/48319
http://secunia.com/advisories/48824
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-08.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2431
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:112
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/09/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/10/4
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801733

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