CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-3280
9.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-06-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
The Database Link library (dblink) in PostgreSQL 8.1 implements functions via CREATE statements that map to arbitrary libraries based on the C programming language, which allows remote authenticated superusers to map and execute a function from any library, as demonstrated by using the system function in libc.so.6 to gain shell access.
Affected configurations
• postgresql postgresql 8.1
References
- http://osvdb.org/40901 osvdb.org
- http://www.leidecker.info/pgshell/Having_Fun_With_PostgreSQL.txt www.leidecker.info
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:188 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.portcullis.co.uk/uplds/whitepapers/Having_Fun_With_PostgreSQL.pdf www.portcullis.co.uk
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471541/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35145 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://osvdb.org/40901 osvdb.org
- http://www.leidecker.info/pgshell/Having_Fun_With_PostgreSQL.txt www.leidecker.info
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:188 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.portcullis.co.uk/uplds/whitepapers/Having_Fun_With_PostgreSQL.pdf www.portcullis.co.uk
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471541/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35145 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com