PostgreSQL class D vulnerability in contrib module: CVE-2014-0066

PostgreSQL class D vulnerability in contrib module: CVE-2014-0066

Severity	CVSS	Published	Added	Modified
4	(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)	March 31, 2014	April 01, 2014	April 01, 2014

Description

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.

Solution

• Postgres Postgres >= 8.4 and < 8.4.20

  Upgrade to PostgreSQL version 8.4.20

  Download and apply the upgrade from: http://www.postgresql.org/download/

• Postgres Postgres >= 9.0 and < 9.0.16

  Upgrade to PostgreSQL version 9.0.16

  Download and apply the upgrade from: http://www.postgresql.org/download/

• Postgres Postgres >= 9.1 and < 9.1.12

  Upgrade to PostgreSQL version 9.1.12

  Download and apply the upgrade from: http://www.postgresql.org/download/

• Postgres Postgres >= 9.2 and < 9.2.7

  Upgrade to PostgreSQL version 9.2.7

  Download and apply the upgrade from: http://www.postgresql.org/download/

• Postgres Postgres >= 9.3 and < 9.3.3

  Upgrade to PostgreSQL version 9.3.3

  Download and apply the upgrade from: http://www.postgresql.org/download/

Related Vulnerabilities

• DSA-2864-1 postgresql-8.4 -- several vulnerabilities
• DSA-2865-1 postgresql-9.1 -- several vulnerabilities
• CESA-2014:0211: postgresql84 and postgresql security update
• CESA-2014:0221: postgresql92-postgresql security update
• CESA-2014:0249: postgresql security update
• ELSA-2014-0211 Important: Oracle Linux 6 postgresql84 and postgresql security update
• ELSA-2014-0249 Important: Oracle Linux 5 postgresql security update
• RHSA-2014:0211: postgresql84 and postgresql security update
• RHSA-2014:0221: postgresql92-postgresql security update
• RHSA-2014:0249: postgresql security update
• SUSE Linux Security Advisory: CVE-2014-0066