Postgres Negative Password Length Denial Of Service Vulnerability
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
11/01/2004
07/25/2018
11/01/2004
10/05/2015
Description
During the authentication process, a remote attacker can send a password packet with a negative length field to cause the Postgres process to crash. Note that the attacker need not have a valid username and password; only host-based access is required.
Solution(s)
- postgres-upgrade-7_2_3
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