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Mageia Linux Local Check: mgasa-2015-0420
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Mageia Linux Local Security Checks mgasa-2015-0420
Insight
Insight
Josh Kupershmidt discovered the pgCrypto extension could expose several bytes of server memory if the crypt() function was provided a too-short salt. An attacker could use this flaw to read private data. (CVE-2015-5288) Oskari Saarenmaa discovered that the json and jsonb handlers could exhaust available stack space. An attacker could use this flaw to perform a denial of service attack. (CVE-2015-5289) The postgresql9.3 and postgresql9.4 packages have been updated to versions 9.3.10 and 9.4.5, respectively, to fix these issues. See the upstream release notes for more details.
Solution
Solution
Update the affected packages to the latest available version.