CVE-2002-0972 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2002-0972 at MITRE

Description

Buffer overflows in PostgreSQL 7.2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via long arguments to the functions (1) lpad or (2) rpad.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.6
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

SUSE Security Advisories:

SuSE-SA:2002:038, published Monday, Oct 21th 2002 17:30 MEST
SuSE-SA:2002:039, published Thu Oct 31 11:00:00 MET 2002

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 00:31:46 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:32 2025