UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5288

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5288

    Published: 9 Oct 2015Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-5288
    Aliases:
    USN-2772-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5288, http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1615/, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2772-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5288

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: postgresql-9.1

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -9.1.19-0ubuntu0.14.04

    Affected versions

    9.1.10-1
    9.1.10-1bzr1
    9.1.11-1
    9.1.11-2
    9.1.12-1
    9.1.13-1
    9.1.14-0ubuntu0.14.04
    9.1.15-0ubuntu0.14.04
    9.1.16-0ubuntu0.14.04
    9.1.17-0ubuntu0.14.04
    9.1.18-0ubuntu0.14.04

    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