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PostgreSQL: CVE-2016-0773: Unchecked regex can crash the server

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PostgreSQL: CVE-2016-0773: Unchecked regex can crash the server

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/12/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/12/2016
Modified
02/14/2020

Description

PostgreSQL before 9.1.20, 9.2.x before 9.2.15, 9.3.x before 9.3.11, 9.4.x before 9.4.6, and 9.5.x before 9.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop or buffer overflow and crash) via a large Unicode character range in a regular expression.

Solution(s)

  • postgres-upgrade-9_5_1

References

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