CVE-2009-0922 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://archives.postgresql.org//pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00176.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00172.php 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 http://secunia.com/advisories/35100 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 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:079 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/11/4 http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1065 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1067.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503598/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34090 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021860 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0767 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1316 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488156 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10874 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A6252 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00810.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00843.html