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CVE-2002-1398
Buffer overflow in the date parser for PostgreSQL before 7.2.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute…
Medium4.6EPSS 0.54%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Buffer overflow in the date parser for PostgreSQL before 7.2.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long date string, aka a vulnerability "in handling long datetime input."
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 22 years later
· 22 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.54% · top 54% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (10)
- http://marc.info/?l=postgresql-announce&m=103062536330644 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 8034 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2003:001 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-165 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 20020821 Re: @(#)Mordred Labs advisory 0x0003: Buffer overflow in PostgreSQL (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20020819 Re: @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in PostgreSQL (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- SuSE-SA:2002:038 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 20020826 GLSA: PostgreSQL (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20020824 Fwd: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 7.2.2: Security Release (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2002-08/msg00004.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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