Amazon Linux AMI update for postgresql93



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2015-3165
CWE-ID CWE-20
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 Amazon Linux AMI
Operating systems & Components / Operating system

Vendor Amazon Web Services

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Input validation error

EUVDB-ID: #VU33829

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 2.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-3165

CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.

Double free vulnerability in PostgreSQL before 9.0.20, 9.1.x before 9.1.16, 9.2.x before 9.2.11, 9.3.x before 9.3.7, and 9.4.x before 9.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by closing an SSL session at a time when the authentication timeout will expire during the session shutdown sequence. <a href="http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/415.html">CWE-415: Double Free</a>

Mitigation

Update the affected packages:

i686:
    postgresql93-plpython26-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-debuginfo-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-devel-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-plperl-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-libs-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-docs-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-pltcl-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-test-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-plpython27-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-contrib-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-server-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.i686

src:
    postgresql93-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    postgresql93-docs-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-debuginfo-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-pltcl-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-devel-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-server-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-plpython27-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-test-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-libs-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-plpython26-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-contrib-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-plperl-9.3.9-1.58.amzn1.x86_64

Vulnerable software versions

Amazon Linux AMI: All versions

CPE2.3 External links

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2015-546.html


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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