CVE-2014-0066: PostgreSQL

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The chkpass extension in PostgreSQL before 8.4.20, 9.0.x before 9.0.16, 9.1.x before 9.1.12, 9.2.x before 9.2.7, and 9.3.x before 9.3.3 does not properly check the return value of the crypt library function, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• PostgreSQL PostgreSQL: up to and including 8.4.19; version 8.4.1 only; version 8.4.2 only; version 8.4.3 only; version 8.4.4 only; version 8.4.5 only; …

Published 2014-03-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.