CVE-2005-1410 Information

Description

The tsearch2 module in PostgreSQL 7.4 through 8.0.x declares the (1) dex_init (2) snb_en_init (3) snb_ru_init (4) spell_init and (5) syn_init functions as \internal\ even when they do not take an internal argument which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly have other impacts via SQL commands that call other functions that accept internal arguments.

Reference

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2005-05/msg00001.php http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.315 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-433.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426302/30/6680/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13475 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0453 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A1086 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9343