CVE-2015-0242

high

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the *printf function implementations in PostgreSQL before 9.0.19, 9.1.x before 9.1.15, 9.2.x before 9.2.10, 9.3.x before 9.3.6, and 9.4.x before 9.4.1, when running on a Windows system, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a floating point number with a large precision, as demonstrated by using the to_char function.

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3155

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1569/

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-1.html

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-0-19.html

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-1-15.html

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-2-10.html

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-3-6.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-01-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High