Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3646-1 postgresql-9.4 -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 11 Aug 2016
- Affected Packages:
- postgresql-9.4
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-5423, CVE-2016-5424.
- More information:
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Several vulnerabilities have been found in PostgreSQL-9.4, a SQL database system.
- CVE-2016-5423
Karthikeyan Jambu Rajaraman discovered that nested CASE-WHEN expressions are not properly evaluated, potentially leading to a crash or allowing to disclose portions of server memory.
- CVE-2016-5424
Nathan Bossart discovered that special characters in database and role names are not properly handled, potentially leading to the execution of commands with superuser privileges, when a superuser executes pg_dumpall or other routine maintenance operations.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 9.4.9-0+deb8u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql-9.4 packages.
- CVE-2016-5423