CVE-2015-3165

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-05-28 · updated 2026-06-17

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.

Affected products

Apple Mac Os X Server: 5.0.2
Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 14.10, 15.04
Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
PostgreSQL: through 9.0.19; 9.1, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.1.3, 9.1.4, 9.1.5 (+30)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00004.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1194.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1195.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1196.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3269
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3270
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1587/
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/release-9-0-20.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-16.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/release-9-2-11.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/release-9-3-7.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-2.html

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