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Vigil@nce - PostgreSQL: multiple vulnerabilities
February 2015 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can use several vulnerabilities of PostgreSQL.
Impacted products: Debian, Fedora, MBS, PostgreSQL, Ubuntu
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 05/02/2015
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
Several vulnerabilities were announced in PostgreSQL.
An attacker can generate a buffer overflow in to_char, in order to
trigger a denial of service, and possibly to execute code.
[severity:2/4; CVE-2015-0241]
An attacker can generate a buffer overflow in printf, in order to
trigger a denial of service, and possibly to execute code.
[severity:2/4; CVE-2015-0242]
An attacker can generate a memory corruption in pgcrypto, in order
to trigger a denial of service, and possibly to execute code.
[severity:2/4; CVE-2015-0243]
An attacker can force a read at an invalid address via a protocol
message, in order to trigger a denial of service. [severity:1/4;
CVE-2015-0244]
An attacker can read the content of protected columns, in order to
obtain sensitive information. [severity:1/4; CVE-2014-8161]
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/PostgreSQL-multiple-vulnerabilities-16121
