Advisories ยป MGASA-2015-0250

Updated postgresql package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 01 Jul 2015
Modification date: 09 Jul 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 4
CVE: CVE-2015-3165 , CVE-2015-3166 , CVE-2015-3167

Description

Double free vulnerability in PostgreSQL before 9.0.20, 9.1.x before
9.1.16, 9.2.x before 9.2.11, 9.3.x before 9.3.7, and 9.4.x before 9.4.2
allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by closing an
SSL session at a time when the authentication timeout will expire during
the session shutdown sequence (CVE-2015-3165).

The replacement implementation of snprintf() failed to check for errors
reported by the underlying system library calls; the main case that might
be missed is out-of-memory situations. In the worst case this might lead
to information exposure (CVE-2015-3166).

In contrib/pgcrypto, some cases of decryption with an incorrect key could
report other error message texts, possibly leading to a side-channel key
exposure (CVE-2015-3167).

The postgresql9.0, postgresql9.1, postgresql9.2, and postgresql9.3
packages have been updated to versions 9.0.22, 9.1.18, 9.2.13, and 9.3.9,
respectively, fixing these issues, as well as some data corruption issues.
 See the upstream release notes for more details.

References

SRPMS

4/core