6.1 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
6.5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.96 High
EPSS
Percentile
99.5%
PostgreSQL is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because the
application fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:postgresql:postgresql";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.100470");
script_version("2023-07-28T16:09:07+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-28 16:09:07 +0000 (Fri, 28 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2010-01-28 18:48:47 +0100 (Thu, 28 Jan 2010)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2010-0442");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.5");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_name("PostgreSQL 'bitsubstr' Buffer Overflow Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("Databases");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2010 Greenbone AG");
script_dependencies("postgresql_detect.nasl", "secpod_postgresql_detect_lin.nasl", "secpod_postgresql_detect_win.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("postgresql/detected");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37973");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/55902");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://intevydis.blogspot.com/2010/01/postgresql-8023-bitsubstr-overflow.html");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"PostgreSQL is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because the
application fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with
elevated privileges or crash the affected application.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"PostgreSQL version 8.0.x, 8.1.x, 8.3.x is vulnerable. Other versions may also be affected.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Updates are available. Please see the references for more information.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if( isnull( port = get_app_port( cpe:CPE ) ) )
exit( 0 );
if( ! infos = get_app_version_and_location( cpe:CPE, port:port, exit_no_version:TRUE ) )
exit( 0 );
vers = infos["version"];
loc = infos["location"];
if( version_in_range( version:vers, test_version:"8.0", test_version2:"8.0.23" ) ||
version_in_range( version:vers, test_version:"8.1", test_version2:"8.1.11" ) ||
version_in_range( version:vers, test_version:"8.3", test_version2:"8.3.8" ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"See references", install_path:loc );
security_message( port:port, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );