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PostgreSQL Out-of-bounds Write Vulnerability - CVE-2015-0242 - Vulnerability Database
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PostgreSQL Out-of-bounds Write Vulnerability - CVE-2015-0242

High
Reference: CVE-2015-0242
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0242
Title: PostgreSQL Out-of-bounds Write Vulnerability
Overview:

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.