CVE-2009-0922
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.0EPSS 10.2%EU EUVD
PostgreSQL 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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 10.2% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-0919)
- Published
- March 17, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-0919 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- postgresql / postgresql
- postgresql / postgresql
- postgresql / postgresql
- postgresql / postgresql
- postgresql / postgresql
References
- http://archives.postgresql.org//pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00176.php(Exploit)
- http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00172.php(Exploit)
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517405
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134124585221119&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34453(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35100(Vendor Advisory)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-258808-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020455.1-1
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0086
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:079
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/11/4
- http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1065(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1067.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503598/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34090(Exploit, Patch)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021860
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0767(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1316(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488156
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10874
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6252
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00810.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00843.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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