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Debian: DSA-3269-1 Critical: PostgreSQL-9.1 Remote Crash Risk

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Calendar Grey May 22, 2015
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A number of security flaws addressed in MySQL-8.0 to improve protection. Update advised for all users.
Several vulnerabilities have been found in PostgreSQL-9.1, a SQL database system

Summary

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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Package: postgresql-9.1
CVE ID: CVE-2015-3165 CVE-2015-3166 CVE-2015-3167

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