CVE-2016-0773: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 6.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PostgreSQL before 9.1.20, 9.2.x before 9.2.15, 9.3.x before 9.3.11, 9.4.x before 9.4.6, and 9.5.x before 9.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop or buffer overflow and crash) via a large Unicode character range in a regular expression.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• PostgreSQL PostgreSQL: up to and including 9.1.19; version 9.2 only; version 9.2.1 only; version 9.2.2 only; version 9.2.3 only; version 9.2.4 only; …

Published 2016-02-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.