CVE-2009-1341 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can cause denial of service via memory exhaustion in the DBD::Pg Perl module when fetching BYTEA data.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2009-1341?
CVE-2009-1341 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 30 Apr 2009. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Memory leak in the dequote_bytea function in quote.c in the DBD::Pg (aka DBD-Pg or libdbd-pg-perl) module before 2.0.0 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by fetching data with BYTEA columns.
Weakness: CWE-200
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-1341?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Debian Libdbd-Pg-Perl.
How do I fix CVE-2009-1341?
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-2009-1341 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-1341 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1341, GHSA-h446-mfq3-hx7g.