CVE-2006-5542: PostgreSQL

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

backend/tcop/postgres.c in PostgreSQL 8.1.x before 8.1.5 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) related to duration logging of V3-protocol Execute messages for (1) COMMIT and (2) ROLLBACK SQL statements.

Affected products

• PostgreSQL PostgreSQL: version 8.1 only; version 8.1.1 only; version 8.1.2 only; version 8.1.3 only; version 8.1.4 only

Published 2006-10-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.