CVE-2014-0066
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4 · Improper input validation
4CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
The chkpass extension in PostgreSQL before 8.4.20, 9.0.x before 9.0.16, 9.1.x before 9.1.12, 9.2.x before 9.2.7, and 9.3.x before 9.3.3 does not properly check the return value of the crypt library function, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via unspecified vectors.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-10/0103.html
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00018.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00038.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0211.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0221.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0249.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0469.html