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Cent OS: CVE-2015-5288: CESA-2015:2081 (postgresql)

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Cent OS: CVE-2015-5288: CESA-2015:2081 (postgresql)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/26/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

The crypt function in contrib/pgcrypto in PostgreSQL before 9.0.23, 9.1.x before 9.1.19, 9.2.x before 9.2.14, 9.3.x before 9.3.10, and 9.4.x before 9.4.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) or read arbitrary server memory via a "too-short" salt.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-postgresql
  • centos-upgrade-postgresql-contrib
  • centos-upgrade-postgresql-devel
  • centos-upgrade-postgresql-docs
  • centos-upgrade-postgresql-libs
  • centos-upgrade-postgresql-plperl
  • centos-upgrade-postgresql-plpython
  • centos-upgrade-postgresql-pltcl
  • centos-upgrade-postgresql-server
  • centos-upgrade-postgresql-test
  • centos-upgrade-postgresql-upgrade

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