Upstream information

CVE-2010-0442 at MITRE

Description

The bitsubstr function in backend/utils/adt/varbit.c in PostgreSQL 8.0.23, 8.1.11, and 8.3.8 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or have unspecified other impact via vectors involving a negative integer in the third argument, as demonstrated by a SELECT statement that contains a call to the substring function for a bit string, related to an "overflow."

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 574667 [RESOLVED / UPSTREAM], 588996 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 648140 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
  • postgresql-devel >= 8.3.23-0.4.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA postgresql-devel-8.3.23-0.4.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
  • postgresql >= 8.3.14-0.2.1
  • postgresql-contrib >= 8.3.14-0.2.1
  • postgresql-docs >= 8.3.14-0.2.1
  • postgresql-libs >= 8.3.14-0.2.1
  • postgresql-libs-32bit >= 8.3.14-0.2.1
  • postgresql-libs-x86 >= 8.3.14-0.2.1
  • postgresql-server >= 8.3.14-0.2.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 GA postgresql-8.3.14-0.2.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
  • postgresql >= 8.3.23-0.4.1
  • postgresql-contrib >= 8.3.23-0.4.1
  • postgresql-docs >= 8.3.23-0.4.1
  • postgresql-server >= 8.3.23-0.4.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 GA postgresql-8.3.23-0.4.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
  • postgresql >= 8.3.23-0.4.1
  • postgresql-contrib >= 8.3.23-0.4.1
  • postgresql-devel >= 8.3.23-0.4.1
  • postgresql-docs >= 8.3.23-0.4.1
  • postgresql-server >= 8.3.23-0.4.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 GA postgresql-8.3.23-0.4.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA postgresql-devel-8.3.23-0.4.1

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:36:57 2013
CVE page last modified: Sat Jun 15 21:14:39 2024