CVE-2026-6668
Integer overflow causes an infinite loop in packet buffer growth in PgBouncer
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Sep 23, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 23, 2026
- Reserved
- Apr 20, 2026
Description
Integer overflow in the packet buffer growth logic in PgBouncer through 1.25.2 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service. Sufficiently large input makes the buffer size computation overflow, leaving the growth loop unable to terminate. Because PgBouncer serves all clients from a single process, this saturates a CPU core and stalls every pooled connection until the process is killed. Both unauthenticated and authenticated code paths can reach the overflow.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | PostgreSQL |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
PgBouncern/a |
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References
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