Arbitrary Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerability in PostgreSQL

CVE-2016-5423 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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