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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2007-4772: PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2007-4772: PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/09/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

The regular expression parser in TCL before 8.4.17, as used in PostgreSQL 8.2 before 8.2.6, 8.1 before 8.1.11, 8.0 before 8.0.15, and 7.4 before 7.4.19, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted regular expression.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-db-postgresql

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