CVE-2026-6668 (GCVE-0-2026-6668)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-23 16:04
Modified
2026-09-23 16:46
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
Summary
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.
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