CVE-2002-1397: PostgreSQL

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Vulnerability in the cash_words() function for PostgreSQL 7.2 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large negative argument, possibly triggering an integer signedness error or buffer overflow.

Affected products

• PostgreSQL PostgreSQL: version 6.3.2 only; version 6.5.3 only; version 7.0.3 only; version 7.1 only; version 7.1.1 only; version 7.1.2 only; …

Published 2003-01-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.