Out-of-Bounds Affecting postgresql package, versions [,9.1.20)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
20.55% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POSTGRESQL-2335987
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Feb 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Feb 2016

CVE-2016-0773  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade postgresql to version 9.1.20 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. PostgreSQL before 9.1.20, 9.2.x before 9.2.15, 9.3.x before 9.3.11, 9.4.x before 9.4.6, and 9.5.x before 9.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop or buffer overflow and crash) via a large Unicode character range in a regular expression.

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