CVE-2007-6067

postgresql: tempory DoS caused by slow regex NFA cleanup

Published Jan 9, 2008 CVSS 2.0 · 6.8 Medium EPSS 3.9% KEV · Not listed
Description
Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the regular expression parser in TCL before 8.4.17, as used in PostgreSQL 8.2 before 8.2.6, 8.1 before 8.1.11, 8.0 before 8.0.15, and 7.4 before 7.4.19, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted "complex" regular expression with doubly-nested states.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1460-1 New postgresql-8.1 packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1463-1 New postgresql-7.4 packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-6037 Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the regular expression parser in TCL before 8.4.17, as used in PostgreSQL 8.2 before 8.2.6, 8.1 before 8.1.11, 8.0 before 8.0.15, and 7.4 before 7.4.19, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted "complex" regular expression with doubly-nested states.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-568-1 PostgreSQL vulnerabilities
References
Link Providers
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01420154 cve-icon cve-icon
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00000.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0122.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28359 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28376 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28437 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28438 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28454 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28455 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28464 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28477 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28479 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28679 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28698 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29638 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-15.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019157 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=565440&group_id=10894 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1810264&group_id=10894&atid=110894 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103197-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200559-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1460 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1463 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:004 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.905 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0038.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0040.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485864/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486407/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27163 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0061 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0109 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1071/references cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39498 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1768 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6067 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10235 cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/568-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-6067 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00397.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00469.html cve-icon cve-icon
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.01068}

epss

{'score': 0.01009}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.01169}

epss

{'score': 0.01068}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 3:54 PM
Reserved
Nov 21, 2007, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jan 9, 2008, 9:46 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:47 PM
Severity
Low
Public date
Jan 7, 2008, 12:00 AM