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CVE-2015-3165 Detail

Description

Double free vulnerability in PostgreSQL before 9.0.20, 9.1.x before 9.1.16, 9.2.x before 9.2.11, 9.3.x before 9.3.7, and 9.4.x before 9.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by closing an SSL session at a time when the authentication timeout will expire during the session shutdown sequence.


Evaluator Description

CWE-415: Double Free

Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00004.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1194.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1195.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1196.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3269 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3270 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1587/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/release-9-0-20.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Release Notes 
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-16.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Release Notes 
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/release-9-2-11.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Release Notes 
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/release-9-3-7.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Release Notes 
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-2.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Release Notes 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74787 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2621-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-20 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://support.apple.com/HT205219 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-3165
NVD Published Date:
05/28/2015
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.