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CVE-2009-3229

Authenticated non-superusers can shut down the backend server by re-LOAD-ing libraries in $libdir/plugins, if any libraries are present there.

Version Information

Affected Version Fixed In
8.4 8.4.1
8.3 8.3.8
8.2 8.2.14

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