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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for postgresql8 (ALAS-2015-556) (multiple CVEs)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for postgresql8 (ALAS-2015-556) (multiple CVEs)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/28/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/09/2015
Modified
11/25/2019

Description

Double free vulnerability in PostgreSQL before 9.0.20, 9.1.x before 9.1.16, 9.2.x before 9.2.11, 9.3.x before 9.3.7, and 9.4.x before 9.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by closing an SSL session at a time when the authentication timeout will expire during the session shutdown sequence.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-postgresql8
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-postgresql8-contrib
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-postgresql8-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-postgresql8-devel
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-postgresql8-docs
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-postgresql8-libs
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-postgresql8-plperl
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-postgresql8-plpython
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-postgresql8-pltcl
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-postgresql8-server
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-postgresql8-test

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