578
VMScore

CVE-2015-0242

Published: 27/01/2020 Updated: 31/01/2020
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8
CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 578
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in the *printf function implementations in PostgreSQL prior to 9.0.19, 9.1.x prior to 9.1.15, 9.2.x prior to 9.2.10, 9.3.x prior to 9.3.6, and 9.4.x prior to 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.

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A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way PostgreSQL handled certain numeric formatting An authenticated database user could use a specially crafted timestamp formatting template to cause PostgreSQL to crash or, under certain conditions, execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running PostgreSQL (CVE-2015-0241) A buffer overflow ...