vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-5870: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Dec 10, 2023 | Mar 26, 2024 | Dec 5, 2025 |
Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 10, 2023
Added
Mar 26, 2024
Modified
Dec 5, 2025
Description
A flaw was found in PostgreSQL involving the pg_cancel_backend role that signals background workers, including the logical replication launcher, autovacuum workers, and the autovacuum launcher. Successful exploitation requires a non-core extension with a less-resilient background worker and would affect that specific background worker only. This issue may allow a remote high privileged user to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Solutions
alpine-linux-upgrade-postgresql14alpine-linux-upgrade-postgresql12alpine-linux-upgrade-postgresql15alpine-linux-upgrade-postgresql16
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