vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-5423: Security patch for postgresql92, postgresql93, postgresql94 (ALAS-2016-747)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Sep 15, 2016 | Sep 16, 2016 | Oct 14, 2022 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 15, 2016
Added
Sep 16, 2016
Modified
Oct 14, 2022
Description
PostgreSQL before 9.1.23, 9.2.x before 9.2.18, 9.3.x before 9.3.14, 9.4.x before 9.4.9, and 9.5.x before 9.5.4 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and server crash), obtain sensitive memory information, or possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a CASE expression within the test value subexpression of another CASE or (2) inlining of an SQL function that implements the equality operator used for a CASE expression involving values of different types.
Solutions
amazon-linux-upgrade--postgresql93amazon-linux-upgrade--postgresql94amazon-linux-upgrade-postgresql92
References
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