CVE-2002-0972: PostgreSQL

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflows in PostgreSQL 7.2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via long arguments to the functions (1) lpad or (2) rpad.

Affected products

• PostgreSQL PostgreSQL: version 6.3.2 only; version 6.5.3 only; version 7.1 only; version 7.1.1 only; version 7.1.2 only; version 7.2 only; …

Published 2002-09-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.