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SUSE: CVE-2016-5423: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2016-5423: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/29/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/12/2016
Modified
06/20/2021

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)

  • suse-upgrade-libecpg6
  • suse-upgrade-libpq5
  • suse-upgrade-libpq5-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql93
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql93-contrib
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql93-docs
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql93-server
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql94
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql94-contrib
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql94-devel
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql94-docs
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql94-server

References

  • SUSE-SU-2016:2414-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:2415-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:2418-1
  • RHSA-2016:1781
  • RHSA-2016:1820
  • RHSA-2016:1821
  • RHSA-2016:2606
  • RHSA-2017:2425
  • DLA-592-1
  • DSA-3646
  • 92433
  • 1036617
  • GLSA-201701-33
  • CVE-2016-5423
  • USN-3066-1
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