Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3270-1 postgresql-9.4 -- security update

Date Reported:
22 May 2015
Affected Packages:
postgresql-9.4
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-3165, CVE-2015-3166, CVE-2015-3167.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been found in PostgreSQL-9.4, a SQL database system.

  • CVE-2015-3165 (Remote crash)

    SSL clients disconnecting just before the authentication timeout expires can cause the server to crash.

  • CVE-2015-3166 (Information exposure)

    The replacement implementation of snprintf() failed to check for errors reported by the underlying system library calls; the main case that might be missed is out-of-memory situations. In the worst case this might lead to information exposure.

  • CVE-2015-3167 (Possible side-channel key exposure)

    In contrib/pgcrypto, some cases of decryption with an incorrect key could report other error message texts. Fix by using a one-size-fits-all message.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 9.4.2-0+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 9.4.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql-9.4 packages.