CVE-2015-0242

Publication date 27 January 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the *printf function implementations in PostgreSQL before 9.0.19, 9.1.x before 9.1.15, 9.2.x before 9.2.10, 9.3.x before 9.3.6, and 9.4.x before 9.4.1, when running on a Windows system, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a floating point number with a large precision, as demonstrated by using the to_char function.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
postgresql-9.1	15.04 vivid	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
postgresql-9.4	15.04 vivid	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Notes

sbeattie

windows replacements only

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-0242