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Gentoo: 200502-19 High: PostgreSQL Buffer Overflow Risk from Remote Attack

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Calendar Grey February 14, 2005
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PostgreSQL encounters severe security vulnerabilities in PL/PgSQL parsing according to recent Gentoo warnings. Immediate action is recommended!
PostgreSQL is vulnerable to several buffer overflows in the PL/PgSQL parser leading to execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-19 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: PostgreSQL: Buffer overflows in PL/PgSQL parser Date: February 14, 2005 Bugs: #81350 ID: 200502-19

Synopsis ======= PostgreSQL is vulnerable to several buffer overflows in the PL/PgSQL parser leading to execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= PostgreSQL is a SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management system.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-db/postgresql < 8.0.1-r1 >= 8.0.1-r1 *>= 7.4.7-r1 *>= 7.3.9-r1
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