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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2009-0922 EUVD-2009-0919GHSA-fj47-2vxw-632j

PostgreSQL before 8.3.7, 8.2.13, 8.1.17, 8.0.21, and 7.4.25 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (stack consumpti…

Published Mar 17, 2009 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

PostgreSQL before 8.3.7, 8.2.13, 8.1.17, 8.0.21, and 7.4.25 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) by triggering a failure in the conversion of a localized error message to a client-specified encoding, as demonstrated using mismatched encoding conversion requests.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Red Hat

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 5 postgresql +9 8.1.18-2.el5_4.1 RHSA-2009:1484
RHEL 4 postgresql +10 7.4.26-1.el4_8.1 RHSA-2009:1484
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Rhel Application Stack 2 httpd +2 2.2.11-2.el5s2 RHSA-2009:1067
Red Hat Rhel Application Stack 2 mod_jk +1 1.2.28-2.el5s2 RHSA-2009:1067
Red Hat Rhel Application Stack 2 mod_ssl 1:2.2.11-2.el5s2 RHSA-2009:1067
Red Hat Rhel Application Stack 2 mysql +6 5.0.79-2.el5s2 RHSA-2009:1067
Red Hat Rhel Application Stack 2 mysql-connector-odbc 3.51.27r695-1.el5s2 RHSA-2009:1067
Red Hat Rhel Application Stack 2 perl-DBD-MySQL 4.010-1.el5s2 RHSA-2009:1067
Red Hat Rhel Application Stack 2 perl-DBD-Pg 1.49-5.el5s2 RHSA-2009:1067
Red Hat Rhel Application Stack 2 php +18 5.2.9-2.el5s2 RHSA-2009:1067
Red Hat Rhel Application Stack 2 postgresql +11 8.2.13-2.el5s2 RHSA-2009:1067
Red Hat Rhel Application Stack 2 postgresql-jdbc 8.2.509-2jpp.el5s2 RHSA-2009:1067
Red Hat Rhel Application Stack 2 postgresqlclient81 8.1.17-1.el5s2 RHSA-2009:1067

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

Exploit-DB 1

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Advisories 2

References