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National Vulnerability Database

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-0922 Detail

Current Description

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.


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Evaluator Description

Per: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488156 "PostgreSQL allows remote authenticated users to cause a momentary denial of service (crash due to stack consumption) when there is a failure to convert a localized error message to the client-specified encoding. In releases 8.3.6, 8.2.12, 8.1.16. 8.0.20, and 7.4.24, a trivial misconfiguration is sufficient to provoke a crash. In older releases it is necessary to select a locale and client encoding for which specific messages fail to translate, and so a given installation may or may not be vulnerable depending on the administrator-determined locale setting. Releases 8.3.7, 8.2.13, 8.1.17, 8.0.21, and 7.4.25 are secure against all known variants of this issue."

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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (10/08/2009)

This issue has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1484.html and in Red Hat Application Stack v2 via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1067.html

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://archives.postgresql.org//pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00176.php CVE, MITRE Exploit 
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00172.php CVE, MITRE Exploit 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517405 CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html CVE, MITRE
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134124585221119&w=2 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/34453 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/35100 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-258808-1 CVE, MITRE
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020455.1-1 CVE, MITRE
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0086 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:079 CVE, MITRE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/11/4 CVE, MITRE
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1065 CVE, MITRE Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1067.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503598/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34090 CVE, MITRE Exploit  Patch 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021860 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0767 CVE, MITRE Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1316 CVE, MITRE Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488156 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10874 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6252 CVE, MITRE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00810.html CVE, MITRE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00843.html CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-0922
NVD Published Date:
03/17/2009
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE