Input validation error in PostgreSQL - CVE-2014-2669

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Input validation error in PostgreSQL - CVE-2014-2669

Published: March 31, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU41872
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-2669
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: PostgreSQL Global Development Group
Affected software:
PostgreSQL

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote #AU# to read and manipulate data.

Multiple integer overflows in contrib/hstore/hstore_io.c in PostgreSQL 9.0.x before 9.0.16, 9.1.x before 9.1.12, 9.2.x before 9.2.7, and 9.3.x before 9.3.3 allow remote authenticated users to have unspecified impact via vectors related to the (1) hstore_recv, (2) hstore_from_arrays, and (3) hstore_from_array functions in contrib/hstore/hstore_io.c; and the (4) hstoreArrayToPairs function in contrib/hstore/hstore_op.c, which triggers a buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT from CVE-2014-0064 because it has a different set of affected versions.


How to mitigate CVE-2014-2669

Install update from vendor's website.

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