SB2015102603 - Information disclosure in PostgreSQL
Published: October 26, 2015 Updated: July 28, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2015102603
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5288)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to #BASIC_IMPACT#.
The crypt function in contrib/pgcrypto in PostgreSQL before 9.0.23, 9.1.x before 9.1.19, 9.2.x before 9.2.14, 9.3.x before 9.3.10, and 9.4.x before 9.4.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) or read arbitrary server memory via a "too-short" salt.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172316.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169094.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00016.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00033.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00040.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3374
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3475
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1615/
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/release-9-0-23.html
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-19.html
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/release-9-2-14.html
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/release-9-3-10.html
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-5.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77049
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033775
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2772-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-33