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SUSE: CVE-2023-5870: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/13/2023
Created
11/15/2023
Added
11/14/2023
Modified
05/01/2024

Description

A flaw was found in PostgreSQL involving the pg_cancel_backend role that signals background workers, including the logical replication launcher, autovacuum workers, and the autovacuum launcher. Successful exploitation requires a non-core extension with a less-resilient background worker and would affect that specific background worker only. This issue may allow a remote high privileged user to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libecpg6
  • suse-upgrade-libecpg6-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libpq5
  • suse-upgrade-libpq5-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql-contrib
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql-devel
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql-docs
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql-llvmjit
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql-llvmjit-devel
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql-plperl
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql-plpython
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql-pltcl
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql-server
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql-server-devel
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql-test
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql12
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql12-contrib
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql12-devel
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql12-docs
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql12-llvmjit
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql12-llvmjit-devel
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql12-plperl
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql12-plpython
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql12-pltcl
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql12-server
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql12-server-devel
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql12-test
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql13
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql13-contrib
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql13-devel
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql13-docs
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql13-llvmjit
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql13-llvmjit-devel
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql13-plperl
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql13-plpython
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql13-pltcl
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql13-server
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql13-server-devel
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql13-test
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql14
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql14-contrib
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql14-devel
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql14-docs
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql14-llvmjit
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql14-llvmjit-devel
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql14-plperl
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql14-plpython
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql14-pltcl
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql14-server
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql14-server-devel
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql14-test
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql15
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql15-contrib
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql15-devel
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql15-docs
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql15-llvmjit
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql15-llvmjit-devel
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql15-plperl
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql15-plpython
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql15-pltcl
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql15-server
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql15-server-devel
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql15-test
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql16
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql16-contrib
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql16-devel
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql16-devel-mini
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql16-docs
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql16-llvmjit
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql16-llvmjit-devel
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql16-plperl
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql16-plpython
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql16-pltcl
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql16-server
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql16-server-devel
  • suse-upgrade-postgresql16-test

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