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CVE-2014-0066

Public on 2014-03-13
Modified on 2014-09-17
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.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 postgresql8 2014-03-13 18:12 ALAS-2014-305
Amazon Linux 1 postgresql9 2014-03-13 18:12 ALAS-2014-306

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P