Detections
Analytics
CVE-2016-5424
high
Description
PostgreSQL before 9.1.23, 9.2.x before 9.2.18, 9.3.x before 9.3.14, 9.4.x before 9.4.9, and 9.5.x before 9.5.4 might allow remote authenticated users with the CREATEDB or CREATEROLE role to gain superuser privileges via a (1) " (double quote), (2) \ (backslash), (3) carriage return, or (4) newline character in a (a) database or (b) role name that is mishandled during an administrative operation.
References
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1688/
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036617
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-5-4.html
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-4-9.html
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-3-14.html
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-2-18.html
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-1-23.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-33
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2425
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2606.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1821.html