CVE-2015-0242

HIGH

PostgreSQL Stack-Based Buffer Overflow via Floating Point Number Precision

Title source: llm

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 (7)

Core 7

Core References

Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

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

Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

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

Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

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

Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

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

Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

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

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

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

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

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

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8

EPSS 0.0321

EPSS Percentile 87.2%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-787

Status published

Products (3)

debian/debian_linux 7.0

debian/debian_linux 8.0

postgresql/postgresql < 9.0.19

Published Jan 27, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026