CVE-2015-5288

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The crypt function in contrib/pgcrypto in PostgreSQL before 9.0.23, 9.1.x before 9.1.19, 9.2.x before 9.2.14, 9.3.x befo

The crypt function in contrib/pgcrypto in PostgreSQL before 9.0.23, 9.1.x before 9.1.19, 9.2.x before 9.2.14, 9.3.x before 9.3.10, and 9.4.x before 9.4.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) or read arbitrary server memory via a "too-short" salt.

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.4 EPSS 0.08949

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Weakness Classification

CWE-200Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

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Affected Products & Versions

postgresql<= 9.0.22

postgresqlall versions

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Scoring & Timeline

6.4

MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com

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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.

v2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Published to NVD26 Oct 2015 · 02:59 PM

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Vendor Advisories

suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10030-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10256-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10273-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2016:0677-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2016:0482-1
Show all 13 vendor advisoriessuse-csafSUSE-SU-2016:0389-1
suse-csafsuse-ou-2015_1847-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2015:1821-1
usnUSN-2772-1
rhsaRHSA-2015:2077Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2015:2078Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2015:2081Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2015:2083Moderate

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172316.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169094.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00016.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00033.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00040.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3374

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http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3475

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1615/Vendor Advisory

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/release-9-0-23.htmlVendor Advisory

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-19.htmlVendor Advisory

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/release-9-2-14.htmlVendor Advisory

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/release-9-3-10.htmlVendor Advisory

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-5.htmlVendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77049

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033775

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2772-1

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-33

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