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Tracker / CVE-2015-0242

CVE-2015-0242

High 8.8

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.

Affected products and versions

debian debian_linux
postgresql postgresql · … → 9.0.19
postgresql postgresql · 9.1.0 → 9.1.15
postgresql postgresql · 9.2.0 → 9.2.10
postgresql postgresql · 9.3.0 → 9.3.6
postgresql postgresql · 9.4.0 → 9.4.1

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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