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CVE-2005-1409

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2006-02-16	postgresql -- character conversion and tsearch2 vulnerabilities

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CVE-2005-1409 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2005-1409
Phase	Assigned(20050503)

Description

PostgreSQL 7.3.x through 8.0.x gives public EXECUTE access to certain character conversion functions, which allows unprivileged users to call those functions with malicious values, with unknown impact, aka the "Character conversion vulnerability."

References

Source	Reference
CONFIRM	http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.315
MLIST	[pgsql-announce] 20050502 IMPORTANT: two new PostgreSQL security problems found
FEDORA	FLSA-2006:157366
REDHAT	RHSA-2005:433
SUSE	SUSE-SA:2005:036
BID	13476
OVAL	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10050
VUPEN	ADV-2005-0453
OVAL	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:676