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CVE-2007-4769
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…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 3.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 10% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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 (backend crash) via an out-of-bounds backref number.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 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 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.6% · top 10% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
38
- MDVSA-2008:004 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- DSA-1460 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 27163 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1768 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0038 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 28454 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20080107 PostgreSQL 2007-01-07 Cumulative Security Release (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 28359 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.905 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2008:005 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- ADV-2008-0061 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 28679 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2008-0109 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 28376 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1810264&group_id=10894&atid=110894 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 103197 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- 28437 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 28455 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 28477 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 29638 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 28479 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=565440&group_id=10894 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-1463 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0040 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 20080115 rPSA-2008-0016-1 postgresql postgresql-server (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 28464 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 28698 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SSRT080006 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- 200559 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- USN-568-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-0552 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 28438 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- postgresql-backref-dos(39499) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1019157 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-0478 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- GLSA-200801-15 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1071 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9804 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-4750 (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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