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CVE-2010-0442

CVE information

Published

14 years ago

Last Modified

1 year ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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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.".

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
6.5/10
Exploit Score
8/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
Single
Impact Score
6.4/10
Confidentiality Impact
Partial
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
Partial

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
8.4 8.4.3
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
8.3 8.3.10
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
8.2 8.2.16
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
8.1 8.1.20
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
8.0 8.0.24
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
7.4 7.4.28

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