Stack-based buffer overflow in the *printf function implementations in PostgreSQL before 9.0.19, 9.1.x before 9.1.15, 9.2.x before 9.2.10, 9.3.x before 9.3.6, and 9.4.x before 9.4.1, when running on a Windows system, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a floating point number with a large precision, as demonstrated by using the to_char function.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-0264 Stack-based buffer overflow in the *printf function implementations in PostgreSQL before 9.0.19, 9.1.x before 9.1.15, 9.2.x before 9.2.10, 9.3.x before 9.3.6, and 9.4.x before 9.4.1, when running on a Windows system, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a floating point number with a large precision, as demonstrated by using the to_char function.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T04:03:10.439Z

Reserved: 2014-11-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-0242

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-01-27T16:15:10.640

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:22:38.137

Link: CVE-2015-0242

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-02-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-0242 - Bugzilla

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