Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-3165

Title: Postgresql Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-3165.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date May 28, 2015
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
8.56%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-3165: 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.

Impacted Vendors

P
postgresql 1
A
anynines 1

Reference Links

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 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74787 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2621-1 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-20 https://support.apple.com/HT205219 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 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74787 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2621-1 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-20 https://support.apple.com/HT205219
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-3165 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.