CVE-2007-4769
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 3.6%EU EUVD
The regular expression parser in TCL before 8.4.17, as used in PostgreSQL 8.2 before 8.2.6, 8.1 before 8.1.11, 8.0 before 8.0.15, and 7.4 before 7.4.19, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (backend crash) via an out-of-bounds backref number.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 3.6% (90th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-4750)
- Published
- January 9, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-4750 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- postgresql / postgresql
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References
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01420154
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00000.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28359(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28376(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28437(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28438(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28454(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28455(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28464(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28477
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28479(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28679(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28698(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29638(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-15.xml
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1019157
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=565440&group_id=10894
- http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1810264&group_id=10894&atid=110894
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103197-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200559-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1460
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1463
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:004
- http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.905
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0038.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0040.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485864/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486407/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27163(Patch)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0061(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0109(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1071/references
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39499
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1768
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9804
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/568-1/
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00397.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00469.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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