CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5423
8.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-12-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
PostgreSQL before 9.1.23, 9.2.x before 9.2.18, 9.3.x before 9.3.14, 9.4.x before 9.4.9, and 9.5.x before 9.5.4 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and server crash), obtain sensitive memory information, or possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a CASE expression within the test value subexpression of another CASE or (2) inlining of an SQL function that implements the equality operator used for a CASE expression involving values of different types.
Affected configurations
• debian debian linux 8.0
• postgresql postgresql (<= 9.1.22)
• postgresql postgresql 9.2
• postgresql postgresql 9.2.1
• postgresql postgresql 9.2.2
• postgresql postgresql 9.2.3
• postgresql postgresql 9.2.4
• postgresql postgresql 9.2.5
• postgresql postgresql 9.2.6
• postgresql postgresql 9.2.7
• postgresql postgresql 9.2.8
• postgresql postgresql 9.2.9
• postgresql postgresql 9.2.10
• postgresql postgresql 9.2.11
• postgresql postgresql 9.2.12
• postgresql postgresql 9.2.13
• postgresql postgresql 9.2.14
• postgresql postgresql 9.2.15
• postgresql postgresql 9.2.16
• postgresql postgresql 9.2.17
• postgresql postgresql 9.3
• postgresql postgresql 9.3.1
• postgresql postgresql 9.3.2
• postgresql postgresql 9.3.3
• postgresql postgresql 9.3.4
• postgresql postgresql 9.3.5
• postgresql postgresql 9.3.6
• postgresql postgresql 9.3.7
• postgresql postgresql 9.3.8
• postgresql postgresql 9.3.9
• postgresql postgresql 9.3.10
• postgresql postgresql 9.3.11
• postgresql postgresql 9.3.12
• postgresql postgresql 9.3.13
• postgresql postgresql 9.4
• postgresql postgresql 9.4.1
• postgresql postgresql 9.4.2
• postgresql postgresql 9.4.3
• postgresql postgresql 9.4.4
• postgresql postgresql 9.4.5
• postgresql postgresql 9.4.6
• postgresql postgresql 9.4.7
• postgresql postgresql 9.4.8
• postgresql postgresql 9.5
• postgresql postgresql 9.5.1
• postgresql postgresql 9.5.2
• postgresql postgresql 9.5.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1781.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1820.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1821.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2606.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3646 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92433 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036617 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2425 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1364001 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-33 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1688/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-1-23.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-2-18.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-3-14.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-4-9.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-5-4.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1781.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1820.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1821.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2606.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3646 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92433 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036617 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2425 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1364001 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-33 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1688/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-1-23.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-2-18.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-3-14.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-4-9.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-5-4.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory