CVE-2009-0922 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2009-0922?

CVE-2009-0922 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Postgresql Postgresql, published on 17 Mar 2009. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

PostgreSQL before 8.3.7, 8.2.13, 8.1.17, 8.0.21, and 7.4.25 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) by triggering a failure in the conversion of a localized error message to a client-specified encoding, as demonstrated using mismatched encoding conversion requests.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-0922?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Postgresql Postgresql.

How do I fix CVE-2009-0922?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2009-0922 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2009-0922 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-fj47-2vxw-632j.