Advisories ยป MGASA-2015-0420

Updated postgresql packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 02 Nov 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2015-5288 , CVE-2015-5289

Description

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

SRPMS

5/core