CVE-2015-5288
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.4
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.
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
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| postgresql | postgresql | {"endIncluding":"9.0.22"} | |
| 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 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.1.10 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.1.11 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.1.12 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.1.13 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.1.14 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.1.15 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.1.16 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.1.17 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.1.18 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.2 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.2.1 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.2.2 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.2.3 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.2.4 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.2.5 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.2.6 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.2.7 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.2.8 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.2.9 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.2.10 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.2.11 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.2.12 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.2.13 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.3 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.3.1 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.3.2 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.3.3 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.3.4 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.3.5 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.3.6 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.3.7 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.3.8 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.3.9 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.4.0 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.4.1 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.4.2 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.4.3 | |
| postgresql | postgresql | 9.4.4 | |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5288.html
- 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
CWEs
CWE-200
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.