CVE-2016-5424

EPSS 4.7%

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 might allow remote authenticated users with the CREATEDB or CREATEROLE role to gain superuser privileges via a (1) " (double quote), (2) \ (backslash), (3) carriage return, or (4) newline character in a (a) database or (b) role name that is mishandled during an administrative operation.

Affected products

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References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1781.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1820.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1821.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2606.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2425 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-33 https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1688/https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-1-23.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-2-18.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-3-14.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-4-9.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-5-4.html