CVE-2002-1401: PostgreSQL

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflows in (1) circle_poly, (2) path_encode and (3) path_add (also incorrectly identified as path_addr) for PostgreSQL 7.2.3 and earlier allow attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code, possibly as a result of an integer 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.