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Vulnerability IntelligenceCVE-2015-5288

CVE-2015-5288

UNKNOWN

The crypt function in contrib/pgcrypto in PostgreSQL before 9

Published Oct 26, 2015

Modified 1 years ago

Details

The crypt function in contrib/pgcrypto in PostgreSQL before 9.0.23, 9.1.x before 9.1.19, 9.2.x before 9.2.14, 9.3.x before 9.3.10, and 9.4.x before 9.4.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) or read arbitrary server memory via a "too-short" salt.

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172316.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169094.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00016.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00033.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00040.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3374

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3475

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1615/

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/release-9-0-23.html

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-19.html

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/release-9-2-14.html

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/release-9-3-10.html

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-5.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77049

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033775

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2772-1

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-33

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5288

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Exploitability

Access Vector

NetworkAV:N

Access Complexity

LowAC:L

Authentication

NoneAu:N

Impact

Confidentiality

PartialC:P

Integrity

NoneI:N

Availability

PartialA:P

6.4/AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedOct 26, 2015

ModifiedAug 6, 2024

CVE-2015-5288 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence