CVE-2016-3065

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-04-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The (1) brin_page_type and (2) brin_metapage_info functions in the pageinspect extension in PostgreSQL before 9.5.x before 9.5.2 allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and consequently obtain sensitive server memory information or cause a denial of service (server crash) via a crafted bytea value in a BRIN index page.

Affected products

PostgreSQL: 9.5, 9.5.1

References

http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=bf78a6f107949fdfb513d1b45e30cefe04e09e4f
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1656/
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-5-2.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035468
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=bf78a6f107949fdfb513d1b45e30cefe04e09e4f
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1656/
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-5-2.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035468

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