CVE-2015-3166

3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 4.6%

exploitation probability

4.6%top 9% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

The snprintf implementation in PostgreSQL before 9.0.20, 9.1.x before 9.1.16, 9.2.x before 9.2.11, 9.3.x before 9.3.7, and 9.4.x before 9.4.2 does not properly handle system-call errors, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information or have other unspecified impact via unknown vectors, as demonstrated by an out-of-memory error.

Affected products

PostgreSQL Global Development Group · PostgreSQL

References

http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2621-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3269 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3270 http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1587/http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/release-9-0-20.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-16.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/release-9-2-11.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/release-9-3-7.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-2.html