SB2015113002 - Information disclosure in postgresql (Alpine package)
Published: November 30, 2015
Security Bulletin ID
SB2015113002
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
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=2d37e1a18bfa6fd4b1e2a540f50a273fd8f29a48
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=b00395849373651c7fb5b1c1d44454b73db2b480
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=86e868a5e1befbf6b37885f9e1c4835d34b3c078
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=0f28cb4563020e8535732a3f4c4768b1b72930b9