PostgreSQL 7.3
Read the English manualEnd of life · Recorded build 7.3.21 · 2008-01-07
This major branch is no longer supported. These records describe its history; the absence of newer security records does not establish that it is safe to run.
- First stable release
- 2002-11-27
- Support end
- 2007-11-27
- Indexed releases
- 0
- Original release-note entries
- 0
Manuals & provenance
PostgreSQL 7.3 English manual · 616 loaded pages.
Manual loaded 2026-09-27T00:10:47.078613.
Release entries: 2026-09-26. Security evidence: 2026-09-26. PDF links use the verified English manifest and locally available files. Lifecycle: PostgreSQL versioning policy.
Upgrade considerations
Major upgrades need a migration method such as dump/reload or pg_upgrade. Read the intervening major-release notes and the target manual. Minor updates can also require extra steps; review the specific release's migration notes. Official upgrade policy.
Structured release-note entries are not available for this branch. Consult its original manual.
Release history
Every indexed release keeps its original occurrences. CVE counts below are mentions in its notes, including follow-up corrections; they do not count newly fixed vulnerabilities.
No complete release entries are indexed for this branch. This does not mean it had no changes.
Security evidence
13 records from the official security matrix and release-note mentions. A fixed version is shown only when the security snapshot explicitly names this branch. A mention alone does not establish applicability or a new fix.
CVE-2007-6601 · DBLink functions combined with local trust or ident access control could be used by a malicious user togain superuser privileges. A valid login is required to exploit this vulnerability.
Fixed in this branch: 7.3.21.
Official affected-branch entry: 7.3.
CVE-2007-6600 · Two vulnerabilities in how ANALYZE executes user defined functions that are part of expression indexes allows users to gain superuser privileges. A valid login that has permissions to create functions and tables is required to exploit this vulnearbility.
Fixed in this branch: 7.3.21.
Official affected-branch entry: 7.3.
CVE-2007-2138 · A vulnerability involving insecure search_path settings allows unprivileged users to gain the SQL privileges of the owner of any SECURITY DEFINER function they are allowed to call. Securing such a function requires both a software update and changes to the function definition.
Fixed in this branch: 7.3.19.
Official affected-branch entry: 7.3.
CVE-2007-0555 · A vulnerability allows suppressing the normal checks that a SQL function returns the data type it's declared to do. These errors 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.
Fixed in this branch: 7.3.13.
Official affected-branch entry: 7.3.
CVE-2006-2314 · The widely-used practice of escaping ASCII single quote "'" by turning it into "\'" is unsafe when operating in multibyte encodings that allow 0x5c (ASCII code for backslash) as the trailing byte of a multibyte character.
Fixed in this branch: 7.3.15.
Official affected-branch entry: 7.3.
CVE-2006-2313 · An attacker able to submit crafted strings to an application that will embed those strings in SQL commands can use invalidly-encoded multibyte characters to bypass standard string-escaping methods, resulting in possible SQL injection.
Fixed in this branch: 7.3.15.
Official affected-branch entry: 7.3.
CVE-2006-0678 · A bug in the handling of SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION can cause a backend crash in Assert enabled builds. This will cause the postmaster to restart all backend, resulting in a denial of service. A valid login is required to exploit this vulnerability.
Fixed in this branch: 7.3.14.
Official affected-branch entry: 7.3.
CVE-2005-1409 · Public EXECUTE access is given to certain character conversion functions that are not designed to be safe against malicious arguments. This can cause at least a denial of service. A valid login is required to exploit this vulnerability.Note! See the announcement for special upgrade instructions.
Fixed in this branch: 7.3.10.
Official affected-branch entry: 7.3.
CVE-2005-0246 · The intagg contrib module allows attackers to cause a denial of service. A valid login is required to exploit this vulnerability.
Fixed in this branch: 7.3.9.
Official affected-branch entry: 7.3.
CVE-2005-0245 · Multiple buffer overflows in the PL/PGSQL parser may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code. A valid login is required to exploit this vulnerability.
Fixed in this branch: 7.3.10.
Official affected-branch entry: 7.3.
CVE-2005-0244 · EXECUTE permissions are not properly checked when creating aggregates. A valid login is required to exploit this vulnerability.
Fixed in this branch: 7.3.9.
Official affected-branch entry: 7.3.
CVE-2005-0227 · Any database user is permitted to load arbitrary shared libraries using the LOAD command. A valid login is required to exploit this vulnerability.
Fixed in this branch: 7.3.9.
Official affected-branch entry: 7.3.
CVE-2004-0977 · Contrib script make_oidjoins_check uses unsafe temporary files. This script is not a user-facing script.
Fixed in this branch: 7.3.8.
Official affected-branch entry: 7.3.
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