Red Hat Security Advisory 2015-2077-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2015-2077-01 – PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system. A memory leak error was discovered in the crypt() function of the pgCrypto extension. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this flaw to disclose a limited amount of the server memory. A stack overflow flaw was discovered in the way the PostgreSQL core server processed certain JSON or JSONB input. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this flaw to crash the server backend by sending specially crafted JSON or JSONB input.

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