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 0.92

  • proposal from Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>: increase BUFSIZE from 1024 to 32768 in order to improve I/O performance.
  • bug-fix in Makefile.PL for $POSTGRES_HOME not defined spotted by mdalphin@amgen.com (Mark Dalphin)
  • bug-fix for data-type datetime in type_info_all spotted by Alan Grover <awgrover@iconnect-inc.com>
  • bug-fix for escaped 's spotted by Hankin <hankin@consultco.com>
  • removed 'large objects' related tests from test.pl

Modules

PostgreSQL database driver for the DBI module

Provides

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

Examples