CVE-2016-5423

N/A
Published: December 9, 2016 at 11:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:49 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsDebian LinuxPostgreSQL

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 6%

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

References (16)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3646
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92433
VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036617

CVSS

Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-476

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