CVE-2009-3229
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.0EPSS 2.6%EU EUVD
The core server component in PostgreSQL 8.4 before 8.4.1, 8.3 before 8.3.8, and 8.2 before 8.2.14 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (backend shutdown) by "re-LOAD-ing" libraries from a certain plugins directory.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P- EPSS score
- 2.6% (85th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-3212)
- Published
- September 17, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-3212 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
- postgresql / postgresql
- postgresql / postgresql
- postgresql / postgresql
- postgresql / postgresql
- postgresql / postgresql
- postgresql / postgresql
- postgresql / postgresql
- postgresql / postgresql
- postgresql / postgresql
- postgresql / postgresql
- postgresql / postgresql
- postgresql / postgresql
- postgresql / postgresql
- postgresql / postgresql
- postgresql / postgresql
- postgresql / postgresql
- postgresql / postgresql
- postgresql / postgresql
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134124585221119&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36660(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36727(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36800
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36837
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-270408-1
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2010-0012
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3-8.html
- http://www.postgresql.org/support/security.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509917/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36314
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-834-1
- http://www.us.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1900
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522092
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00305.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00307.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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