CVE-2016-0773
Public on 2016-02-17
Modified on 2016-04-21
Description
An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the PostgreSQL handling code for regular expressions. A remote attacker could use a specially crafted regular expression to cause PostgreSQL to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Severity
CVSS v3 Base Score
See breakdown
Affected Packages
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux 1 | postgresql8 | 2016-04-21 | ALAS-2016-689 | Fixed |
Amazon Linux 1 | postgresql92 | 2016-03-10 | ALAS-2016-662 | Fixed |
Amazon Linux 1 | postgresql93 | 2016-03-10 | ALAS-2016-662 | Fixed |
Amazon Linux 1 | postgresql94 | 2016-03-10 | ALAS-2016-662 | Fixed |
CVSS Scores
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |