CVE-2012-2655 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2012-2655

PostgreSQL 8.3.x before 8.3.19, 8.4.x before 8.4.12, 9.0.x before 9.0.8,...

Vulnerability Description

PostgreSQL 8.3.x before 8.3.19, 8.4.x before 8.4.12, 9.0.x before 9.0.8, and 9.1.x before 9.1.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (server crash) by adding the (1) SECURITY DEFINER or (2) SET attributes to a procedural language's call handler.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

postgresql
Vulnerable Versions:
8.3, 8.3.1, 8.3.2, 8.3.3, 8.3.4, 8.3.5, 8.3.6, 8.3.7, 8.3.8, 8.3.9, 8.3.10, 8.3.11, 8.3.12, 8.3.13, 8.3.14, 8.3.15, 8.3.16, 8.3.17, 8.3.18, 8.4, 8.4.1, 8.4.2, 8.4.3, 8.4.4, 8.4.5, 8.4.6, 8.4.7, 8.4.8, 8.4.9, 8.4.10, 8.4.11, 9.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, 9.0.3, 9.0.4, 9.0.5, 9.0.6, 9.0.7, 9.1, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.1.3

Timeline

Official Publish: July 18th, 2012
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.