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USN-933-1: PostgreSQL vulnerability

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USN-933-1: PostgreSQL vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/02/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

The bitsubstr function in backend/utils/adt/varbit.c in PostgreSQL 8.0.23, 8.1.11, and 8.3.8 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or have unspecified other impact via vectors involving a negative integer in the third argument, as demonstrated by a SELECT statement that contains a call to the substring function for a bit string, related to an "overflow."

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-postgresql-8-3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-postgresql-8-4

References

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