Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting libpq package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBPQ-10077260
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed17 Jan 2003
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Jan 2003

CVE-2002-1402  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for libpq.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Buffer overflows in the (1) TZ and (2) SET TIME ZONE enivronment variables for PostgreSQL 7.2.1 and earlier allow local users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1