Affects:
- Postgresql 8.3.6 and prior [Medium]
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.
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CVE Identifier: CVE-2009-0922
Severity: Medium
NIST National Vulnerabilities Database
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