Buffer overflow in PostgreSQL - CVE-2016-0773
Published: February 17, 2016 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32339
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-0773
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: PostgreSQL Global Development Group
Affected software:
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
PostgreSQL before 9.1.20, 9.2.x before 9.2.15, 9.3.x before 9.3.11, 9.4.x before 9.4.6, and 9.5.x before 9.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop or buffer overflow and crash) via a large Unicode character range in a regular expression.
How to mitigate CVE-2016-0773
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177820.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177878.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00049.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00052.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00054.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00056.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00016.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1060.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3475
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3476
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
- http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1644/
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-1-20.html
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-2-15.html
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-3-11.html
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-4-6.html
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-5-1.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83184
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035005
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2894-1
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10152
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0773
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-33