Brute-force Attack

postgresql is vulnerable to brute-force attacks. The vulnerability exists as a signedness issue was found in the way the crypt function in the PostgreSQL pgcrypto module handled 8-bit characters in passwords when using Blowfish hashing. Up to three characters immediately preceding a non-ASCII...

Buffer overflow

Multiple buffer overflows in contrib/pgcrypto in PostgreSQL before 9.0.19, 9.1.x before 9.1.15, 9.2.x before 9.2.10, 9.3.x before 9.3.6, and 9.4.x before 9.4.1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors...

SQL Injection

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system DBMS. An information leak flaw was found in the way the PostgreSQL database server handled certain error messages. An authenticated database user could possibly obtain the results of a query they did not have privileges to...

Stack-Based Buffer Overflow

PostgreSQL is vulnerable to a stack-buffer overflow flaw. In PostgreSQL's pgcrypto module, An authenticated database user could use this flaw to cause PostgreSQL to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running PostgreSQL...

Buffer Overflow

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system DBMS. An information leak flaw was found in the way the PostgreSQL database server handled certain error messages. An authenticated database user could possibly obtain the results of a query they did not have privileges to...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system DBMS. A flaw was found in the way the crypt password hashing function from the optional PostgreSQL pgcrypto contrib module performed password transformation when used with the DES algorithm. If the password string to be hashed...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

postgresql is vulnerable to denial of service. A memory leak error was discovered in the crypt function of the pgCrypto extension. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this flaw to disclose a limited amount of the server memory...

SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : postgresql91 (SUSE-SU-2016:0389-1)

This update of postgresql91 to 9.1.19 fixes the following issues : - CVE-2015-5288: crypt pgCrypto extension couldi potentially be exploited to read a few additional bytes of memory bsc949669 Also contains all changes and bugfixes in the upstream 9.1.19 release:...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2015-619)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Medium: postgresql8

Issue Overview: A memory leak error was discovered in the crypt function of the pgCrypto extension. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this flaw to disclose a limited amount of the server memory. CVE-2015-5288 Affected Packages: postgresql8 Issue Correction: Run yum update postgresql8 o...

The vulnerability of the PostgreSQL database management system allows a attacker to cause a service failure or read arbitrary portions of the server’s memory.

The vulnerability of the crypt function in the contrib/pgcrypto component of the PostgreSQL database management system is related to the lack of protection for service data. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to cause service failures or read arbitrary portions of the...

postgresql: limited memory disclosure flaw in crypt()

A memory leak error was discovered in the crypt function of the pgCrypto extension. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this flaw to disclose a limited amount of the server memory...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: postgresql92-postgresql security update

Updated postgresql92-postgresql packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Software Collections 2. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings...

postgresql: limited memory disclosure flaw in crypt()

A memory leak error was discovered in the crypt function of the pgCrypto extension. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this flaw to disclose a limited amount of the server memory...

postgresql: limited memory disclosure flaw in crypt()

A memory leak error was discovered in the crypt function of the pgCrypto extension. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this flaw to disclose a limited amount of the server memory...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2015-0420)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Amazon Linux AMI : postgresql92 / postgresql93,postgresql94 (ALAS-2015-609)

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in json parsing in PostgreSQL before 9.3.x before 9.3.10 and 9.4.x before 9.4.5 allow attackers to cause a denial of service server crash via unspecified vectors, which are not properly handled in 1 json or 2 jsonb values. CVE-2015-5289 The crypt function in...

MGASA-2015-0420 Updated postgresql packages fix security vulnerabilities

Josh Kupershmidt discovered the pgCrypto extension could expose several bytes of server memory if the crypt function was provided a too-short salt. An attacker could use this flaw to read private data. CVE-2015-5288 Oskari Saarenmaa discovered that the json and jsonb handlers could exhaust...

Updated postgresql packages fix security vulnerabilities

Josh Kupershmidt discovered the pgCrypto extension could expose several bytes of server memory if the crypt function was provided a too-short salt. An attacker could use this flaw to read private data. CVE-2015-5288 Oskari Saarenmaa discovered that the json and jsonb handlers could exhaust...

CVE-2015-5288

CVE-2015-5288 concerns the crypt() function in PostgreSQL’s pgcrypto extension. A too-short salt argument can cause the server to crash or disclose a small amount of server memory, enabling a denial-of-service or memory exposure under affected builds. Affected versions (per the CVE entry) include...