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

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

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/03/2023
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/30/2023

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.

Solution(s)

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

References

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