Explain 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.
Affected Products: n/a
References: [{'tags': ['x_refsource_CONFIRM'], 'url': 'http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1065'}, {'name': '1021860', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'x_refsource_SECTRACK'], 'url': 'http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021860'}, {'name': 'FEDORA-2009-2959', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_FEDORA'], 'url': 'https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00843.html'}, {'name': 'RHSA-2009:1067', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_REDHAT'], 'url': 'http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1067.html'}, {'name': '[pgsql-bugs] 20090227 Re: BUG #4680: Server crashed if using wrong (mismatch) conversion functions', 'tags': ['mailing-list', 'x_refsource_MLIST'], 'url': 'http://archives.postgresql.org//pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00176.php'}, {'name': '34090', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'x_refsource_BID'], 'url': 'http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34090'}, {'name': 'oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10874', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'signature', 'x_refsource_OVAL'], 'url': 'https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10874'}, {'name': 'HPSBMU02781', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_HP'], 'url': 'http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134124585221119&w=2'}, {'name': '[oss-security] 20090311 CVE request -- postgresql', 'tags': ['mailing-list', 'x_refsource_MLIST'], 'url': 'http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/11/4'}, {'name': '258808', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_SUNALERT'], 'url': 'http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-258808-1'}, {'name': '34453', 'tags': ['third-party-advisory', 'x_refsource_SECUNIA'], 'url': 'http://secunia.com/advisories/34453'}, {'name': 'ADV-2009-0767', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'x_refsource_VUPEN'], 'url': 'http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0767'}, {'name': '20090519 rPSA-2009-0086-1 postgresql postgresql-contrib postgresql-server', 'tags': ['mailing-list', 'x_refsource_BUGTRAQ'], 'url': 'http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503598/100/0/threaded'}, {'tags': ['x_refsource_CONFIRM'], 'url': 'http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517405'}, {'name': 'MDVSA-2009:079', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_MANDRIVA'], 'url': 'http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:079'}, {'name': '[pgsql-bugs] 20090227 BUG #4680: Server crashed if using wrong (mismatch) conversion functions', 'tags': ['mailing-list', 'x_refsource_MLIST'], 'url': 'http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00172.php'}, {'name': 'FEDORA-2009-2927', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_FEDORA'], 'url': 'https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00810.html'}, {'name': '35100', 'tags': ['third-party-advisory', 'x_refsource_SECUNIA'], 'url': 'http://secunia.com/advisories/35100'}, {'tags': ['x_refsource_CONFIRM'], 'url': 'https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488156'}, {'tags': ['x_refsource_CONFIRM'], 'url': 'http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0086'}, {'name': 'ADV-2009-1316', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'x_refsource_VUPEN'], 'url': 'http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1316'}, {'name': 'oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6252', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'signature', 'x_refsource_OVAL'], 'url': 'https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6252'}, {'name': 'SUSE-SR:2009:009', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_SUSE'], 'url': 'http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html'}, {'name': '1020455', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_SUNALERT'], 'url': 'http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020455.1-1'}, {'name': 'SSRT100617', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_HP'], 'url': 'http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134124585221119&w=2'}]
CVE State: PUBLISHED