CVE-2015-3165 (Remote crash)
SSL clients disconnecting just before the authentication timeout
expires can cause the server to crash.
CVE-2015-3166 (Information exposure)
The replacement implementation of snprintf() failed to check for
errors reported by the underlying system library calls; the main
case that might be missed is out-of-memory situations. In the worst
case this might lead to information exposure.
CVE-2015-3167 (Possible side-channel key exposure)
In contrib/pgcrypto, some cases of decryption with an incorrect key
could report other error message texts. Fix by using a
one-size-fits-all message.
For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed
in version 9.1.16-0+deb7u1.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 9.1.16-0+deb8u1. (Jessie contains a reduced postgresql-9.1
package; only CVE-2015-3166 is fixed in the produced binary package
postgresql-plperl-9.1. We recommend to upgrade to postgr...
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