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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3269-1 (postgresql-9.1 - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Several vulnerabilities have been found in PostgreSQL-9.1, a SQL database system. 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.
Affected Software
Affected Software
postgresql-9.1 on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
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 postgresql-9.4 to get the full set of fixes. See the Jessie release notes for details.) The testing distribution (stretch) and the unstable distribution (sid) do not contain the postgresql-9.1 package. We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql-9.1 packages.