vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2015-3166: postgresql: unanticipated errors from the standard library

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 20, 2019
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

The snprintf implementation 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 does not properly handle system-call errors, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information or have other unspecified impact via unknown vectors, as demonstrated by an out-of-memory error.

Solution

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Title
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