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Ubuntu: USN-5906-1 (CVE-2022-41862): PostgreSQL vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Mar 3, 2023
Added
Mar 22, 2023
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

In PostgreSQL, a modified, unauthenticated server can send an unterminated string during the establishment of Kerberos transport encryption. In certain conditions a server can cause a libpq client to over-read and report an error message containing uninitialized bytes.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-postgresql-12ubuntu-upgrade-postgresql-14ubuntu-upgrade-postgresql-client-12ubuntu-upgrade-postgresql-client-14
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