vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-2499-1 (CVE-2015-0241): PostgreSQL vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 27, 2020
Added
Nov 8, 2024
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

The to_char function in PostgreSQL before 9.0.19, 9.1.x before 9.1.15, 9.2.x before 9.2.10, 9.3.x before 9.3.6, and 9.4.x before 9.4.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a (1) large number of digits when processing a numeric formatting template, which triggers a buffer over-read, or (2) crafted timestamp formatting template, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-postgresql-8-4ubuntu-upgrade-postgresql-9-1ubuntu-upgrade-postgresql-9-3ubuntu-upgrade-postgresql-9-4
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