CVE-2002-1398: PostgreSQL

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

Buffer overflow in the date parser for PostgreSQL before 7.2.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long date string, aka a vulnerability "in handling long datetime input."

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.