Original 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 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and server crash), obtain sensitive memory information, or possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a CASE expression within the test value subexpression of another CASE or (2) inlining of an SQL function that implements the equality operator used for a CASE expression involving values of different types.
Affected software
- PostgreSQL = 9.2.11= 9.5.1= 9.2.3≤ 9.1.22= 9.4.4= 9.3.12 exact match
Details
- Published
- 2016-12-10
- Last modified
- 2024-08-06
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
References
- cve.org/CVE-2016-5423
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5423
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1781.html
- www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-4-9.html
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1036617
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1821.html
- www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3646
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/92433
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-33
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2425
- www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-5-4.html
- www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-3-14.html
- www.postgresql.org/about/news/1688/
- www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-2-18.html
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