VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-3165

medium
Published 2015-05-28 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Double free vulnerability in PostgreSQL before 9.0.20, 9.1.x before 9.1.16, 9.2.x before 9.2.11, 9.3.x before 9.3.7, and 9.4.x before 9.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by closing an SSL session at a time when the authentication timeout will expire during the session shutdown sequence.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.04affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql{"endIncluding":"9.0.19"}
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.2
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.3
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.4
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.5
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.6
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.7
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.8
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.9
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.10
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.11
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.12
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.13
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.14
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.1.15
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.2
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.3
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.4
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.5
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.6
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.7
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.8
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.9
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.2.10
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.1
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.2
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.3
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.4
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.5
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.3.6
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.0
postgresql postgresqlpostgresql9.4.1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.