Security Advisory

CVE-2016-5423

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-09 23:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:00:59
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.