CVE-2009-3229: PostgreSQL

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The core server component in PostgreSQL 8.4 before 8.4.1, 8.3 before 8.3.8, and 8.2 before 8.2.14 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (backend shutdown) by "re-LOAD-ing" libraries from a certain plugins directory.

Affected products

• PostgreSQL PostgreSQL: version 8.2 only; version 8.2.1 only; version 8.2.2 only; version 8.2.3 only; version 8.2.4 only; version 8.2.5 only; …

Published 2009-09-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.