#VU111771 Input validation error in PostgreSQL - CVE-2010-0733
Published: February 13, 2023 / Updated: June 23, 2025
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL Global Development Group
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform service disruption.
Integer overflow in src/backend/executor/nodeHash.c in PostgreSQL 8.4.1 and earlier, and 8.5 through 8.5alpha2, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a SELECT statement with many LEFT JOIN clauses, related to certain hashtable size calculations.
Remediation
External links
- http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-10/msg00289.php
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/03/09/2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546621
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/03/16/10
- http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-10/msg00287.php
- http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-10/msg00310.php
- http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-10/msg00277.php
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0428.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0427.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0429.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38619
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39820
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1197
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10691
- http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=64b057e6823655fb6c5d1f24a28f236b94dd6c54