Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-0922

Title: Postgresql Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2009-0922

CWE Category CWE-399
Published Date Mar 17, 2009
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Available
Score 4.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
10.24%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-0922: 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.

Impacted Vendors

P
postgresql 1
A
anynines 1

Reference Links

http://archives.postgresql.org//pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00176.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00172.php http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517405 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134124585221119&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/34453 http://secunia.com/advisories/35100 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-258808-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020455.1-1 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0086 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:079 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/11/4 http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1065 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1067.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503598/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34090 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021860 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0767 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1316 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488156 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10874 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6252 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00810.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00843.html http://archives.postgresql.org//pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00176.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00172.php http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517405 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134124585221119&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/34453 http://secunia.com/advisories/35100 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-258808-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020455.1-1 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0086 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:079 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/11/4 http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1065 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1067.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503598/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34090 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021860 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0767 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1316 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488156 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10874 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6252 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00810.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00843.html
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2009-0922 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/32849
View Code
MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.