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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2009-1341

Medium
5/10

Summary

Memory leak in the "dequote_bytea" function in "quote.c" in the DBD::Pg (aka DBD-Pg or libdbd-pg-perl) module before 2.0.0 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to cause a Denial of Service (memory consumption) by fetching data with BYTEA columns.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published