msrc_cve-2022-41862
Vulnerability from csaf_microsoft
Published
2023-03-10 00:00
Modified
2025-03-12 00:00
Summary
In PostgreSQL a modified unauthenticated server can send an unterminated string during the establishment of Kerberos transport encryption. In certain conditions a server can cause a libpq client to over-read and report an error message containing uninitialized bytes.

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