CVE-2015-0242

3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 5.1%

exploitation probability

5.1%top 8% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

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

PostgreSQL Global Development Group · PostgreSQL

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3155 http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1569/http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-1.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-0-19.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-1-15.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-2-10.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-3-6.html