CVE-2016-0773

high

Description

PostgreSQL before 9.1.20, 9.2.x before 9.2.15, 9.3.x before 9.3.11, 9.4.x before 9.4.6, and 9.5.x before 9.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop or buffer overflow and crash) via a large Unicode character range in a regular expression.

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177820.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177878.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00049.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00052.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00054.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00056.html

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

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1060.html

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10152

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

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

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3476

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1644/

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-1-20.html

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-2-15.html

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-3-11.html

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-4-6.html

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-5-1.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035005

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2894-1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-02-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High