CVE-2016-5423
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5423
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5423.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-5423
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2016-12-09T23:59:00.160Z
- Modified
- 2026-04-16T06:20:28.758522229Z
- Severity
-
- 8.3 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
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.
- References
-
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-33
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-1-23.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1820.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2606.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036617
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1781.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3646
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2425
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1821.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
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92433
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1364001
- https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1688/
Affected packages
Git /
Database specific
source
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