40906 : TCL in PostgreSQL Out-of-bounds Backref Number Remote DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2008-01-07

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2007-4769" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : The regular expression parser in TCL before 8.4.17, as used in PostgreSQL 8.2 before 8.2.6, 8.1 before 8.1.11, 8.0 before 8.0.15, and 7.4 before 7.4.19, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (backend crash) via an out-of-bounds backref number.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

CVE ID: 2007-4769 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 27163
Secunia Advisory ID: 28359 28376 28437 28445 28454 28455 28464 28477 28479 28679 28698 29638
Related OSVDB ID: 40902 40903 40904 40905
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-01/0066.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-04/0021.html
http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2008-January/001876.html
Other Advisory URL: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-security-announce-2008/msg00018.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00000.html
http://lists.rpath.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008-January/000301.html
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103197-1
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200801-15.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:004
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-568-1
http://www.us.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1463
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00469.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200559-1
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.905

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Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 6.8
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2008-01-10 | Disagree?

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