Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-0442

Title: Postgresql Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2010-0442

CWE Category CWE-189

Published Date Feb 02, 2010

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 6.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

13.36%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-0442: 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."

Impacted Vendors

postgresql 1

anynines 1

Reference Links

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2010-01/msg00125.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-01/msg00634.php http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567058 http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=75dea10196c31d98d98c0bafeeb576ae99c09b12 http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b15087cb39ca9e4bde3c8920fcee3741045d2b83 http://intevydis.blogspot.com/2010/01/postgresql-8023-bitsubstr-overflow.html http://secunia.com/advisories/39566 http://secunia.com/advisories/39820 http://secunia.com/advisories/39939 http://securitytracker.com/id?1023510 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-933-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2051 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:103 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/27/5 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0427.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0428.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0429.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37973 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1022 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1197 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1207 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1221 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559194 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559259 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/55902 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9720 http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2010-01/msg00125.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-01/msg00634.php http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567058 http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=75dea10196c31d98d98c0bafeeb576ae99c09b12 http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b15087cb39ca9e4bde3c8920fcee3741045d2b83 http://intevydis.blogspot.com/2010/01/postgresql-8023-bitsubstr-overflow.html http://secunia.com/advisories/39566 http://secunia.com/advisories/39820 http://secunia.com/advisories/39939 http://securitytracker.com/id?1023510 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-933-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2051 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:103 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/27/5 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0427.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0428.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0429.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37973 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1022 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1197 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1207 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1221 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559194 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559259 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/55902 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9720

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns