01 Record
CVE-2010-0442
The bitsubstr function in backend/utils/adt/varbit.c in PostgreSQL 8.0.23, 8.1.11, and 8.3.8 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or have unspecified other
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: redhat
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
The bitsubstr function in backend/utils/adt/varbit.c in PostgreSQL 8.0.23, 8.1.11, and 8.3.8 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or have unspecified other
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 13.25% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 96.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2010-02-02 18:00Z16 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 00:52Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2010-01-27
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- bfe08d9c5f079e35bf3d9ebb41ac00ed360290e1c3802de6e243edd44cd47217
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2010:0427http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0427.html
- securitytracker.com1023510http://securitytracker.com/id?1023510
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2010:0428http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0428.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-2051http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2051
- ubuntu.comUSN-933-1http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-933-1
- secunia.com39820http://secunia.com/advisories/39820
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20100127 Re: CVE id request: postgresql bitsubstr overflowhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/27/5
- www.vupen.comADV-2010-1221http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1221
- www.securityfocus.com37973http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37973
- git.postgresql.orghttp://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=75dea10196c31d98d98c0bafeeb576ae99c09b12
- intevydis.blogspot.comhttp://intevydis.blogspot.com/2010/01/postgresql-8023-bitsubstr-overflow.html
- git.postgresql.orghttp://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b15087cb39ca9e4bde3c8920fcee3741045d2b83
- www.vupen.comADV-2010-1207http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1207
- bugs.debian.orghttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567058
- www.vupen.comADV-2010-1022http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1022
- archives.postgresql.org[pgsql-hackers] 20100107 Re: Patch: Allow substring/replace() to get/set bit valueshttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-01/msg00634.php
- secunia.com39566http://secunia.com/advisories/39566
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559259
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.compostgresql-substring-bo(55902)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/55902
- archives.postgresql.org[pgsql-committers] 20100107 pgsql: Make bit/varbit substring() treat any negative length as meaninghttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2010-01/msg00125.php
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2010:0429http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0429.html
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:9720https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9720
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559194
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2010:103http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:103
- secunia.com39939http://secunia.com/advisories/39939
- www.vupen.comADV-2010-1197http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1197