CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-0442

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2010-02-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-02-02
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-189

Description

The bitsubstr function in backend/utils/adt/varbit.c in PostgreSQL 8.0.23, 8.1.11, and 8.3.8 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or have unspecified other impact via vectors involving a negative integer in the third argument, as demonstrated by a SELECT statement that contains a call to the substring function for a bit string, related to an "overflow."

Affected configurations

• postgresql postgresql (>= 7.4 < 7.4.28) • postgresql postgresql (>= 8.0 < 8.0.24) • postgresql postgresql (>= 8.1 < 8.1.20) • postgresql postgresql (>= 8.2 < 8.2.16) • postgresql postgresql (>= 8.3 < 8.3.10) • postgresql postgresql (>= 8.4 < 8.4.3)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References