CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-0242
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-01-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the *printf function implementations in PostgreSQL before 9.0.19, 9.1.x before 9.1.15, 9.2.x before 9.2.10, 9.3.x before 9.3.6, and 9.4.x before 9.4.1, when running on a Windows system, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a floating point number with a large precision, as demonstrated by using the to_char function.
Affected configurations
• postgresql postgresql (< 9.0.19)
• postgresql postgresql (>= 9.1.0 < 9.1.15)
• postgresql postgresql (>= 9.2.0 < 9.2.10)
• postgresql postgresql (>= 9.3.0 < 9.3.6)
• postgresql postgresql (>= 9.4.0 < 9.4.1)
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3155 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1569/ Vendor Advisory
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-1.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-0-19.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-1-15.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-2-10.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-3-6.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3155 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1569/ Vendor Advisory
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-1.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-0-19.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-1-15.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-2-10.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-3-6.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory