CVE-2014-8161

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-8161  

Impact: Moderate Public Date: 2015-02-05 CWE: CWE-662->CWE-300 Bugzilla: 1182043: CVE-2014-8161 postgresql: information leak through constraint violation errors An information leak flaw was found in the wathe PostgreSQL database server handled certain error messages. An authenticated database user could possibly obtain the results of a query they did not have privileges to execute by observing the constraint violation error messages produced when the query was executed.

An information leak flaw was found in the wathe PostgreSQL database server handled certain error messages. An authenticated database user could possibly obtain the results of a query they did not have privileges to execute by observing the constraint violation error messages produced when the query was executed.

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CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 3.5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Satellite 5.7 (RHEL v.6) (postgresql92-postgresql) RHSA-2015:0856 2015-04-20
Red Hat Satellite Managed DB 5.7 (RHEL v.6) (postgresql92-postgresql) RHSA-2015:0856 2015-04-20
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (postgresql92-postgresql) RHSA-2015:0699 2015-03-18
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (postgresql) RHSA-2015:0750 2015-03-30
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (postgresql) RHSA-2015:0750 2015-03-30
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (postgresql92-postgresql) RHSA-2015:0699 2015-03-18

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-postgresql94-postgresql Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 postgresql84 Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 postgresql Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the PostgreSQL project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Stephen Frost as the original reporter.

External References