CVE-2015-5288

PostgreSQL <9.0.23-9.4.5 - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

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 (18)

Core 18

Core References

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

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

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

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

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

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

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

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

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

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

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

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

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo

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

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

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

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

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

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

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

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

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

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

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

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

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

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

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

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

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

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

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

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

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

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

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

Scores

EPSS 0.0895

EPSS Percentile 92.7%

Details

CWE

CWE-200

Status published

Products (49)

postgresql/postgresql 9.1

postgresql/postgresql 9.1.1

postgresql/postgresql 9.1.2

postgresql/postgresql 9.1.3

postgresql/postgresql 9.1.4

postgresql/postgresql 9.1.5

postgresql/postgresql 9.1.6

postgresql/postgresql 9.1.7

postgresql/postgresql 9.1.8

postgresql/postgresql 9.1.9

... and 39 more

Published Oct 26, 2015

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026