Summary
The remote host is missing an update to postgresql announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:079.
Solution
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:079
Insight
PostgreSQL before 8.3.7, 8.2.13, 8.1.17, 8.0.21, and 7.4.25 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) by triggering a failure in the conversion of a localized error message to a client-specified encoding, as demonstrated using mismatched encoding conversion requests (CVE-2009-0922).
This update provides a fix for this vulnerability.
Affected: 2008.0, 2008.1, 2009.0, Corporate 3.0, Corporate 4.0
Severity
Classification
-
CVE CVE-2009-0922 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
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