Security Advisories (2)
CVE-2009-1341 (2009-04-30)

Memory leak in the dequote_bytea function in quote.c in the DBD::Pg (aka DBD-Pg or libdbd-pg-perl) module before 2.0.0 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by fetching data with BYTEA columns.

CVE-2012-1151 (2012-09-09)

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in dbdimp.c in DBD::Pg (aka DBD-Pg or libdbd-pg-perl) module before 2.19.0 for Perl allow remote PostgreSQL database servers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via format string specifiers in (1) a crafted database warning to the pg_warn function or (2) a crafted DBD statement to the dbd_st_prepare function.

Changes for version 1.48

  • Bump minimum DBI version to 1.45 (CPAN bug #18260) (plus problems in versions 1.42 and 1.44 [GSM]
  • Fix typo in Pg.pm code (CPAN bug #18537) [marc@sssonline.com]
  • Ensure begin_work is properly set before err. (CPAN bug #18387) [GSM]
  • Force PQexecParams to only run with DML. (CPAN bug #18258) [GSM]
  • Fix bytea encoding problem (CPAN bug #18264) [GSM]
  • Add documentation about connection service files (pg_service.conf).
    • David Fetter

Modules

PostgreSQL database driver for the DBI module

Provides

in Pg.pm
in Pg.pm
in Pg.pm