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PostgreSQL < 8.3.23 / 8.4.16 / 9.0.12 / 9.1.8 / 9.2.3 Denial of Service

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 6743

Synopsis

The remote database server is vulnerable to a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

Versions of PostgreSQL earlier than 8.3.23, 8.4.16, 9.0.12, 9.1.8, 9.2.3 and are potentially affected by a denial of service vulnerability due to a flaw in the enum_recv() functin of 'backend/utils/adt/enum.c'. By exploiting this flaw, a remote attacker could crash the affected application

Solution

Upgrade to PostgreSQL 8.3.23 / 8.4.16 / 9.0.12 / 9.1.8 / 9.2.3 or later.

See Also

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1446

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3-23.html

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release-8-4-16.html

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/release-9-0-12.html

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-8.html

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/release-9-2-3.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 6743

Family: Database

Published: 4/5/2013

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 64669

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:postgresql:postgresql

Patch Publication Date: 2/7/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/7/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0255

BID: 57844