September 26, 2024: PostgreSQL 17 Released!

CVE-2007-0556

A vulnerability involving changing the data type of a table column can easily be exploited to cause a backend crash, and in principle might be used to read database content that the user should not be able to access.

Version Information

Affected Version Fixed In
8.2 8.2.2
8.1 8.1.7
8.0 8.0.11

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