CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-5423

8.3 HIGH Published 2016-12-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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