CVE-2009-0922

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-0922
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-03-17 17:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionPostgreSQL before 8.3.7, 8.2.13, 8.1.17, 8.0.21, and 7.4.25 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) by triggering a failure in the conversion of a localized error message to a client-specified encoding, as demonstrated using mismatched encoding conversion requests.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
Single
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Postgresql Postgresql 7.4.24 All All All
Application Postgresql Postgresql 8.0.20 All All All
Application Postgresql Postgresql 8.1.16 All All All
Application Postgresql Postgresql 8.2.12 All All All
Application Postgresql Postgresql 8.3.6 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Fedora update for postgresql - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Re: BUG #4680: Server crashed if using wrong (mismatch) conversion funct af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 archives.postgresql.org Exploit
Sun Solaris PostgreSQL Denial of Service Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
'[security bulletin] HPSBMU02781 SSRT100617 rev.1 - HP Network Node Manager i (NNMi) for HP-UX, Linux' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
Bug 488156 – CVE-2009-0922 postgresql: potential DoS due to conversion functions af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sunsolve.sun.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: postgresql-8.3.7-1.fc9 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sunsolve.sun.com
oss-security - CVE request -- postgresql af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
PostgreSQL: News: PostgreSQL 2009-03-16 Security Update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.postgresql.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
PostgreSQL Conversion Encoding Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit, Patch
[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: postgresql-8.3.7-1.fc10 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
BUG #4680: Server crashed if using wrong (mismatch) conversion functions af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 archives.postgresql.org Exploit
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2009:009 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
PostgreSQL Encoding Conversion Error Lets Remote Authenticated Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2009:079 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0086 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wiki.rpath.com
#517405 - postgresql-8.3: Server crashes if using wrong (mismatch) conversion - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2009-10-08Tomas HogerThis issue has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1484.html and in Red Hat Application Stack v2 via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1067.html

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