Medium 4.0Published Mar 17, 2009

CVE-2009-0922PostgreSQL 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…

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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.

CVSS: 4.0 MEDIUM (v2.0, NVD)AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness (CWE): CWE-399
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

postgresql postgresql postgresql:postgresql	7.4.24; 8.0.20; 8.1.16; 8.2.12; 8.3.6	NVD

References

References

http://archives.postgresql.org//pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00176.php	exploit
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00172.php	exploit
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517405
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134124585221119&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/34453	vendor-advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/35100	vendor-advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-258808-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020455.1-1
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0086
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