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CVE-2009-0922

PostgreSQL before 8.3.7, 8.2.13, 8.1.17, 8.0.21, and 7.4.25 allows remote authenticated users to...

4.0 MediumPublic exploitFix available

CVE-2009-0922 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.0) in Postgresql, published March 17, 2009. Public exploit code exists. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 10.2%, the 95th percentile. Fixed in httpd 0:2.2.11-2.el5s2.

PostgreSQL before 8.3.7, 8.2.13, 8.1.17, 8.0.21, and 7.4.25 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) by triggering a failure in the conversion of a localized error message to a client-specified encoding, as demonstrated using mismatched encoding conversion requests.

Exploit likelihood

10.2%Down 0.8 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 4.0

PostgreSQL before 8.3.7, 8.2.13, 8.1.17, 8.0.21, and 7.4.25 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) by triggering a failure in the conversion of a localized error message to a client-specified encoding, as demonstrated using mismatched encoding conversion requests.

Record
CVE-2009-0922
CVSS 2.0
4.0 MediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness
CWE-399
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

PostgreSQL before 8.3.7, 8.2.13, 8.1.17, 8.0.21, and 7.4.25 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) by triggering a failure in the conversion of a localized error message to a client-specified encoding, as demonstrated using mismatched encoding conversion requests.

Record
CVE-2009-0922
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2009-0919 No score

PostgreSQL before 8.3.7, 8.2.13, 8.1.17, 8.0.21, and 7.4.25 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) by triggering a failure in the conversion of a localized error message to a client-specified encoding, as demonstrated using mismatched encoding conversion requests.

Record
EUVD-2009-0919
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-fj47-2vxw-632j No score

PostgreSQL before 8.3.7, 8.2.13, 8.1.17, 8.0.21, and 7.4.25 allows remote authenticated users to...

PostgreSQL before 8.3.7, 8.2.13, 8.1.17, 8.0.21, and 7.4.25 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) by triggering a failure in the conversion of a localized error message to a client-specified encoding, as demonstrated using mismatched encoding conversion requests.

Record
GHSA-fj47-2vxw-632j
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
httpd
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:2.2.11-2.el5s2
0:2.2.11-2.el5s2
httpd-debuginfo
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:2.2.11-2.el5s2
0:2.2.11-2.el5s2
httpd-devel
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:2.2.11-2.el5s2
0:2.2.11-2.el5s2
httpd-manual
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:2.2.11-2.el5s2
0:2.2.11-2.el5s2
mod_jk
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:1.2.28-2.el5s2
0:1.2.28-2.el5s2
mod_jk-ap20
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:1.2.28-2.el5s2
0:1.2.28-2.el5s2
mod_jk-debuginfo
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:1.2.28-2.el5s2
0:1.2.28-2.el5s2
mod_ssl
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 1:2.2.11-2.el5s2
1:2.2.11-2.el5s2
mysql
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.0.79-2.el5s2
0:5.0.79-2.el5s2
mysql-bench
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.0.79-2.el5s2
0:5.0.79-2.el5s2
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
mysql-cluster
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.0.79-2.el5s2
0:5.0.79-2.el5s2
mysql-connector-odbc
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:3.51.27r695-1.el5s2
0:3.51.27r695-1.el5s2
mysql-connector-odbc-debuginfo
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:3.51.27r695-1.el5s2
0:3.51.27r695-1.el5s2
mysql-debuginfo
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.0.79-2.el5s2
0:5.0.79-2.el5s2
mysql-devel
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.0.79-2.el5s2
0:5.0.79-2.el5s2
mysql-libs
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.0.79-2.el5s2
0:5.0.79-2.el5s2
mysql-server
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.0.79-2.el5s2
0:5.0.79-2.el5s2
mysql-test
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.0.79-2.el5s2
0:5.0.79-2.el5s2
perl-DBD-MySQL
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:4.010-1.el5s2
0:4.010-1.el5s2
perl-DBD-MySQL-debuginfo
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:4.010-1.el5s2
0:4.010-1.el5s2
perl-DBD-Pg
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:1.49-5.el5s2
0:1.49-5.el5s2
perl-DBD-Pg-debuginfo
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:1.49-5.el5s2
0:1.49-5.el5s2
php
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
php-bcmath
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
php-cli
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
php-common
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
php-dba
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
php-debuginfo
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
php-devel
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
php-gd
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
php-imap
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
php-ldap
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
php-mbstring
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
php-mysql
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
php-ncurses
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
php-odbc
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
php-pdo
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
php-pgsql
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
php-snmp
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
php-soap
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
php-xml
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
php-xmlrpc
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
0:5.2.9-2.el5s2
postgresql
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
postgresql-contrib
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
postgresql-debuginfo
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
postgresql-devel
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
postgresql-docs
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
postgresql-jdbc
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:8.2.509-2jpp.el5s2
0:8.2.509-2jpp.el5s2
postgresql-jdbc-debuginfo
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:8.2.509-2jpp.el5s2
0:8.2.509-2jpp.el5s2
postgresql-libs
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
postgresql-plperl
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
postgresql-plpython
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
postgresql-pltcl
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
postgresql-python
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
postgresql-server
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
postgresql-tcl
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
postgresql-test
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
0:8.2.13-2.el5s2
postgresqlclient81
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:8.1.17-1.el5s2
0:8.1.17-1.el5s2
postgresqlclient81-debuginfo
Red Hat:rhel_application_stack:2
 before 0:8.1.17-1.el5s2
0:8.1.17-1.el5s2
postgresql
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-contrib
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-jdbc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-pl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-python
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-server
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-tcl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-test
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-contrib
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-jdbc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-pl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-python
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-server
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-tcl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-test
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-contrib
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-jdbc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-pl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-python
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-server
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-tcl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-test
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-contrib
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-jdbc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-pl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-python
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-server
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-tcl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql-test
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
 before 0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
0:7.4.26-1.el4_8.1
postgresql
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql-pl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql-server
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql-test
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql-contrib
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql-python
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql-tcl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql-contrib
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql-pl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql-python
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql-server
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql-tcl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
postgresql-test
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1
0:8.1.18-2.el5_4.1

Public exploits

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Public exploits
SourceLinkDate
Exploit-DBPostgreSQL 8.3.6 - Conversion Encoding Remote Denial of Service2009-03-11

History

History
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2026-11-03aliasesEUVD
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