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CVE-2016-5424

Published: 12/9/2016 Last updated: 8/6/2024 Reserved: 6/10/2016

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.

CNA assigner: redhat (53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (5)

conf-mingw-w64-postgresql-i686 conf-mingw-w64-postgresql-x86_64 conf-postgresql ocsigen-start postgresql

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
n/a n/a Versions earlier than EVA-L09C464B383

References (30)