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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2015-5288: PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2015-5288: PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/26/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

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)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-db-postgresql

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