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
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.