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CVE-2015-5289 json

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in json parsing in PostgreSQL before 9.3.x before 9.3.10 and 9.4.x before 9.4.5 allow attackers to ca…

published 2015-10-26 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-5266

cvss
6.4
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.0%
EPSS 5.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in json parsing in PostgreSQL before 9.3.x before 9.3.10 and 9.4.x before 9.4.5 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) via unspecified vectors, which are not properly handled in (1) json or (2) jsonb values.

Patch / fix

  • postgresql postgresql 9.3.10, 9.4.5
  • postgresql-9.1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 9.1.19-0ubuntu0.14.04
  • postgresql-9.3 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 9.3.10-0ubuntu0.14.04

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5289

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • postgresql92-postgresql RHEL 2 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 9.2.14-1.el6
  • postgresql92-postgresql RHEL 2 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 9.2.14-1.el7
  • postgresql92-postgresql-libs RHEL 2 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 9.2.14-1.el6
  • postgresql92-postgresql-libs RHEL 2 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 9.2.14-1.el7
  • postgresql92-postgresql-test RHEL 2 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 9.2.14-1.el6
  • postgresql92-postgresql-test RHEL 2 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 9.2.14-1.el7
  • postgresql92-postgresql-pltcl RHEL 2 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 9.2.14-1.el6
  • postgresql92-postgresql-pltcl RHEL 2 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 9.2.14-1.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:2083RHSA-2015:2078RHSA-2015:2077

  • postgresql94 SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLED 11 SP4 9.4.6-0.14.3
  • postgresql94-libs SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLED 11 SP4 +1 more 9.4.6-0.14.3
  • postgresql94 SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES for SAP 11 SP3, SLES 11 SP4 +5 more 9.4.5-0.8.3
  • postgresql94-libs SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES for SAP 11 SP3, SLES 11 SP4 +6 more 9.4.5-0.8.3
  • postgresql94 SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12, SLED 12 9.4.5-4.5
  • postgresql-init SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12 9.4-17.8.1
  • postgresql94-libs SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12, SLED 12 +1 more 9.4.5-4.1
  • postgresql93 SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12, SLED 12 9.3.10-11.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:0677-1SUSE-SU-2016:0482-1SUSE-OU-2015:1847-1SUSE-SU-2015:1821-1

  • postgresql94 openSUSE Tumbleweed 9.4.10-1.1
  • postgresql93 openSUSE Tumbleweed 9.3.15-1.1
  • postgresql95 openSUSE Tumbleweed 9.5.4-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10030-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10256-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10273-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-5289 updated cvss 4.3

postgresql: stack overflow DoS when parsing json or jsonb inputs

  • Red Hat Satellite 5 postgresql92-postgresql
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) postgresql 9.2.14-1.el7_1, postgresql-libs 9.2.14-1.el7_1, postgresql-test 9.2.14-1.el7_1, postgresql-pltcl 9.2.14-1.el7_1, postgresql-plperl 9.2.14-1.el7_1, postgresql-server 9.2.14-1.el7_1, +3 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) postgresql 9.2.14-1.el7_1, postgresql-libs 9.2.14-1.el7_1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) postgresql 9.2.14-1.el7_1, postgresql-test 9.2.14-1.el7_1, postgresql-pltcl 9.2.14-1.el7_1, postgresql-plperl 9.2.14-1.el7_1, postgresql-server 9.2.14-1.el7_1, postgresql-contrib 9.2.14-1.el7_1, +2 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) postgresql 9.2.14-1.el7_1, postgresql 9.2.14-1.ael7b_1, postgresql-libs 9.2.14-1.el7_1, postgresql-test 9.2.14-1.el7_1, postgresql-pltcl 9.2.14-1.el7_1, postgresql-libs 9.2.14-1.ael7b_1, +10 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) postgresql-upgrade 9.2.14-1.el7_1, postgresql-upgrade 9.2.14-1.ael7b_1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) postgresql 9.2.14-1.el7_1, postgresql-libs 9.2.14-1.el7_1, postgresql-test 9.2.14-1.el7_1, postgresql-pltcl 9.2.14-1.el7_1, postgresql-plperl 9.2.14-1.el7_1, postgresql-server 9.2.14-1.el7_1, +2 more
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) postgresql-upgrade 9.2.14-1.el7_1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:2078
  • Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) postgresql92-postgresql 9.2.14-1.el6, rh-postgresql94-postgresql 9.4.5-1.el6, postgresql92-postgresql-libs 9.2.14-1.el6, postgresql92-postgresql-test 9.2.14-1.el6, postgresql92-postgresql-pltcl 9.2.14-1.el6, postgresql92-postgresql-plperl 9.2.14-1.el6, +12 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) postgresql92-postgresql 9.2.14-1.el7, rh-postgresql94-postgresql 9.4.5-1.el7, postgresql92-postgresql-libs 9.2.14-1.el7, postgresql92-postgresql-test 9.2.14-1.el7, postgresql92-postgresql-pltcl 9.2.14-1.el7, postgresql92-postgresql-plperl 9.2.14-1.el7, +12 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.5) postgresql92-postgresql 9.2.14-1.el6, rh-postgresql94-postgresql 9.4.5-1.el6, postgresql92-postgresql-libs 9.2.14-1.el6, postgresql92-postgresql-test 9.2.14-1.el6, postgresql92-postgresql-pltcl 9.2.14-1.el6, postgresql92-postgresql-plperl 9.2.14-1.el6, +12 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6) postgresql92-postgresql 9.2.14-1.el6, rh-postgresql94-postgresql 9.4.5-1.el6, postgresql92-postgresql-libs 9.2.14-1.el6, postgresql92-postgresql-test 9.2.14-1.el6, postgresql92-postgresql-pltcl 9.2.14-1.el6, postgresql92-postgresql-plperl 9.2.14-1.el6, +12 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7) postgresql92-postgresql 9.2.14-1.el6, rh-postgresql94-postgresql 9.4.5-1.el6, postgresql92-postgresql-libs 9.2.14-1.el6, postgresql92-postgresql-test 9.2.14-1.el6, postgresql92-postgresql-pltcl 9.2.14-1.el6, postgresql92-postgresql-plperl 9.2.14-1.el6, +12 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.1) postgresql92-postgresql 9.2.14-1.el7, rh-postgresql94-postgresql 9.4.5-1.el7, postgresql92-postgresql-libs 9.2.14-1.el7, postgresql92-postgresql-test 9.2.14-1.el7, postgresql92-postgresql-pltcl 9.2.14-1.el7, postgresql92-postgresql-plperl 9.2.14-1.el7, +12 more
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) postgresql92-postgresql 9.2.14-1.el6, rh-postgresql94-postgresql 9.4.5-1.el6, postgresql92-postgresql-libs 9.2.14-1.el6, postgresql92-postgresql-test 9.2.14-1.el6, postgresql92-postgresql-pltcl 9.2.14-1.el6, postgresql92-postgresql-plperl 9.2.14-1.el6, +12 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) postgresql92-postgresql 9.2.14-1.el7, rh-postgresql94-postgresql 9.4.5-1.el7, postgresql92-postgresql-libs 9.2.14-1.el7, postgresql92-postgresql-test 9.2.14-1.el7, postgresql92-postgresql-pltcl 9.2.14-1.el7, postgresql92-postgresql-plperl 9.2.14-1.el7, +12 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:2083
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 postgresql, postgresql84 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 postgresql, postgresql-libs, postgresql-test, postgresql-pltcl, postgresql-plperl, postgresql-server, +2 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

5.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
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References

Sources

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