CVE-2016-0773

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-02-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

PostgreSQL before 9.1.20, 9.2.x before 9.2.15, 9.3.x before 9.3.11, 9.4.x before 9.4.6, and 9.5.x before 9.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop or buffer overflow and crash) via a large Unicode character range in a regular expression.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10
Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
PostgreSQL: through 9.1.19; 9.2, 9.2.1, 9.2.2, 9.2.3, 9.2.4, 9.2.5 (+16)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177820.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177878.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00049.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00052.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00054.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00056.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00016.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1060.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3475
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3476
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1644/

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