Red Hat: CVE-2016-5423: Moderate: postgresql security and bug fix update (RHSA-2016:2606)
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.
Solution(s)
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-contrib
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-debuginfo
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-devel
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-docs
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-libs
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-plperl
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-plpython
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-pltcl
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-server
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-test
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-upgrade
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