CVE-2005-0247: PostgreSQL

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in gram.y for PostgreSQL 8.0.1 and earlier may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a large number of variables in a SQL statement being handled by the read_sql_construct function, (2) a large number of INTO variables in a SELECT statement being handled by the make_select_stmt function, (3) a large number of arbitrary variables in a SELECT statement being handled by the make_select_stmt function, and (4) a large number of INTO variables in a FETCH statement being handled by the make_fetch_stmt function, a different set of vulnerabilities than CVE-2005-0245.

Affected products

• PostgreSQL PostgreSQL: version 7.2 only; version 7.2.1 only; version 7.2.2 only; version 7.2.3 only; version 7.2.4 only; version 7.2.5 only; …

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.