CVE-2010-0442

Vulnerability 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."

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References

• http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2010-01/msg00125.phpVendor Advisory
• http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-01/msg00634.phpVendor Advisory
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567058Third Party Advisory
• http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=75dea10196c31d9Vendor Advisory
• http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b15087cb39ca9e4Vendor Advisory
• http://intevydis.blogspot.com/2010/01/postgresql-8023-bitsubstr-overflow.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/39566Broken Link
• http://secunia.com/advisories/39820Broken Link
• http://secunia.com/advisories/39939Broken Link
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1023510Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-933-1Third Party Advisory
• http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2051Third Party Advisory
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:103Broken Link
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/27/5Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0427.htmlThird Party Advisory