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REDHAT-BUG-488156

First published: Mon Mar 02 2009(Updated: )

A stack overflow was found in how PostgreSQL handles conversion encoding. This could allow an authenticated user to kill connections to the PostgreSQL server for a small amount of time, which could interupt transactions by other users/clients. The original report is here: <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00172.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00172.php</a> Upstream has a patch for this issue that causes the server to crash in a different way (core dump due to abort() rather than core dump due to stack overflow), but it sounds like they are still looking for a better fix.

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
PostgreSQL JDBC Driver

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