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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2007-6067: PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2007-6067: PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
01/09/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in 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 remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted "complex" regular expression with doubly-nested states.

Solution(s)

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

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