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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

An attacker can use several vulnerabilities of PostgreSQL.

Impacted products: Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, PostgreSQL, Puppet,
RHEL, Ubuntu.

Severity: 2/4.

Creation date: 08/10/2015.

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

Several vulnerabilities were announced in PostgreSQL.

An attacker can trigger a fatal error when json/jsonb data are
analyzed, in order to trigger a denial of service. [severity:2/4;
CVE-2015-5289]

An attacker can read a memory fragment via the crypt() function,
in order to obtain sensitive information. [severity:1/4;
CVE-2015-5288]

ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN

http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/PostgreSQL-two-vulnerabilities-18062