Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-0972

Title: PostgreSQL lpad/rpad buffer overflows RCE/DoS

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2002-0972.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Sep 24, 2002

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.49%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-0972: Buffer overflows in PostgreSQL 7.2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via long arguments to the functions (1) lpad or (2) rpad.

Impacted Vendors

postgresql 1

anynines 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102987608300785&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/8034 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-001.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102987608300785&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/8034 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-001.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-0972 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 24, 2002 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.