MGASA-2015-0420

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    MGASA-2015-0420

    Published: 2 Nov 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated postgresql packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: Josh Kupershmidt discovered the pgCrypto extension could expose several bytes of server memory if the crypt() function was provided a too-short salt. An attacker could use this flaw to read private data. (CVE-2015-5288) Oskari Saarenmaa discovered that the json and jsonb handlers could exhaust available stack space. An attacker could use this flaw to perform a denial of service attack. (CVE-2015-5289) The postgresql9.3 and postgresql9.4 packages have been updated to versions 9.3.10 and 9.4.5, respectively, to fix these issues. See the upstream release notes for more details.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0420.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16924, http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1615/, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2772-1/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: postgresql9.3

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/postgresql9.3?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -9.3.10-1.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High