CVE-2010-0442

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-189 Numeric Errors

Publication date:

02/02/2010

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

The bitsubstr function in backend/utils/adt/varbit.c in PostgreSQL 8.0.23, 8.1.11, and 8.3.8 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or have unspecified other impact via vectors involving a negative integer in the third argument, as demonstrated by a SELECT statement that contains a call to the substring function for a bit string, related to an "overflow."

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.50 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

6.50

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql::::::::	7.4 (including)	7.4.28 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql::::::::	8.0 (including)	8.0.24 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql::::::::	8.1 (including)	8.1.20 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql::::::::	8.2 (including)	8.2.16 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql::::::::	8.3 (including)	8.3.10 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql::::::::	8.4 (including)	8.4.3 (excluding)

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CVE-2010-0442

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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