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FreeBSD: PostgreSQL -- Denial-of-Service and Code Injection Vulnerabilities (Multiple CVEs)

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FreeBSD: PostgreSQL -- Denial-of-Service and Code Injection Vulnerabilities (Multiple CVEs)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/11/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/12/2016
Modified
03/21/2018

Description

PostgreSQL project reports: Security Fixes nested CASE expressions + database and role names with embedded special characters CVE-2016-5423: certain nested CASE expressions can cause the server to crash. CVE-2016-5424: database and role names with embedded special characters can allow code injection during administrative operations like pg_dumpall.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-postgresql91-server
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-postgresql92-server
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-postgresql93-server
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-postgresql94-server
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-postgresql95-server

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