CVE-2012-4575

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-11-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The add_database function in objects.c in the pgbouncer pooler 1.5.2 for PostgreSQL allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon outage) via a long database name in a request.

Affected products

Pgbouncer Project Pgbouncer: 1.5.2

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692103
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgbouncer.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4b92112b820830b30cd7bc91bef3dd8f35305525
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/02/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56371
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872527
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692103
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgbouncer.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4b92112b820830b30cd7bc91bef3dd8f35305525
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/02/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56371
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872527

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